Cleishbotham younger (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Half green leather with marbled paper-covered boards. Contains 3 titles rebound as 1. Two Lectures on Some Changes in Social Life and Habits (1857); 'Cakes, Leeks, Puddings, and Potatoes' (1864). Finally, Handbook of the Scottish Language (1858). Second title contains 3 B&W illustrations. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Intense hinge cracking and looseness. Sporadic stains and marks. Boards have some edge wear, with pronounced bumping and peeling to corners, while spine ends are crushed and peeled. Rather scratched, rubbed and marked overall, especially leather areas.…

Paperback. Zustand: G+. 1st Edition. A good copy. Brown cloth-covered stiffened card covers with gilt titling on front cover. 66pp very small print, Scottish dictionary. Immediate despatch from the UK. 16mo. PB. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Heavy rubbing and abrasions to leather at ends of spine, joints, and edges of boards. 15mm white stain on front cover. Binding shaken, with gatherings coming loose.; "Preface to New Edition" dated 1897. Pages unnumbered. Full leather binding, limp leather covers. Gilt title on front board "A GUID SCOTCH DICTIONARY". Gilt illustration of Scotch Thistle on front board. Tall and narrow format. Page dimensions: 158 x 69mm. "In this Dictionary and Preface will be found every word of any importance used by Ramsay, Fergusson, Burns, and Scott, as well as the more modern authors who use the Scottish tongue as the medium to express the wisdom, wit, and pathos of their literary characters." - from the Preface to New Edition.…

Full-Leather. Zustand: Good. New Edition. tall narrow 12mo, undated but preface 1897, black leather a little edge rubbed, gilt good and bright, top of spine little chipped, binding good and tight, contents good and clean. Book.