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paperback. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Previous owners name.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Viii, 688 Pp. Full Year With "Corrections" On Last Page. Recent Full Green Cloth, Red Morocco Spine Label, Retaining Original Preliminary And Final Blanks. Articles By Edward Blyth At Pp 40 "An Attempt To Classify The 'Varities' Of Animals.", P. 198 "A Few Remarks On Hybrids.", P. 325 "Observations On The Cuckoo", P. 364 " A Notice Of A Very Remarkable Individual Of The Common Shrike."; Charles Waterton P. 166, 251, 322, 361, 453, 451, 663; W. J. Clarke P. 1 "On Certain Meteoric Phenomena"; Etc. The Blyth Article Is The First Extended Discussion Of The Basic Principles Of Natural Selection; Darwin Read Blyth's Work Carefully, And Was A Friend Of Blyth; Loren Eiseley's "Darwin And The Mysterious Mr. X" Is An Account Of Their Relationship, With Some Errors But Generally Correct. Binding As New; Preliminary And Final Blanks With Browning And Light Chipping At Corners; Contents Fine, Clean, Square, Unworn. No Names Or Marks. Frontispiece, Illustrated Title Page, Illustrations In Text (illustrator).…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. A lovely copy of The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan, in Bickers & Son fine binding. In full-calf Bickers & Son fine binding, with Bickers & Son mark to verso of first front free endpaper.With gilt decorations to the spine and striking fore edge marbling.This title forms part of the Nichol's Library Edition of the British Poets.The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Rev. George Gilfillan, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke. During his lifetime Reverend George Gilfillan was an advocate for working-class poets, as well as being a spasmodic poet himself and a literary critic. Within this volume is contained several delightful poetical works by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, and Tobias Smollett, including Samuel Johnson's 'The Vanity of Human Wishes', Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', and a number of Smollet's odes. In full calf Bickers & Son binding with gilt decorations. Externally, generally attractive with the odd mark and slight bumping and rubbing; former to spine's head and tail and extremities, latter heaviest to the leather's fore edge and spine. Some rubbing to the front pastedown. Bickers & Son mark to verso of first front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with lovely, bright, clean pages; light age toning and spotting exclusive to the endpapers. With fore edge marbling, slightly dulled at the top edge. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…