Cotton james ed (16 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1909. No Edition Remarks. 983 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Minor dog-eared corners. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Tears to some pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 480 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0895772760 :; 9780895772763 ; LCCN: 87-16356 ; LC: TX158; Dewey: 640 ; OCLC: 16079820 ; "A handbook for everyday life with more than 4,000 time saving and cost saving tips for the home. Its pages are packed with shortcuts, practical advice, ingenious ideas, how-to information, and more than 1,000 illustrations. Includes over 70 how-to projects--accompanied by step-by-step illustrations--and more than 275 special features." ; color pictorial boards ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Getting organized -- Indoors -- Outdoors -- You and yours -- Food & nutrition -- A more beautiful home ; FINE. Book. …

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Blue leather boards showing minor wear; bumped slightly at head and tail of spine. Gilt titles on spine. Bookplate on pastedown, inkstamp on title; endpapers a little foxed; contents otherwise clean and sound. TPW. Ex Library.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Blue leather boards showing minor wear; bumped slightly at head and tail of spine. Gilt titles on spine. Bookplate on pastedown, inkstamp on title; endpapers a little foxed; contents otherwise clean and sound. TPW. Ex Library.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Blue leather boards showing minor wear; bumped slightly at head and tail of spine. Gilt titles on spine. Bookplate on pastedown, endpapers discoloured; contents otherwise clean and sound. TPW. Ex Library.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Blue leather boards showing minor wear; bumped slightly at head and tail of spine. Gilt titles on spine. Bookplate on pastedown, endpapers a little discoloured; contents otherwise clean and sound. TPW. Ex Library.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Blue leather boards showing minor wear; bumped slightly at head and tail of spine. Gilt titles on spine. Bookplate on pastedown, endpapers discoloured; contents otherwise clean and sound. TPW. Ex Library.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Dark blue leather boards showing minor shelfwear; bumped slightly at head and tail of spine. Gilt titles on spine. Bookplate on pastedown, endpapers discoloured; contents otherwise clean and sound. TPW. Ex Library.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Brown hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Good. Seventh Edition. G : in good condition. Modern rebind with new eps. Slight foxing/. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 512pp + plates. 17 b/w plates. With Lives of the authors and notes. by Sir John Hawkins.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. An early posthumous collected edition of the works of Sir Robert Cotton, the renowned antiquarian and founder of the Cotton Library, bound in full calf. The third edition, being a scarce early copy of this collected edition.A collection of works from the renowned antiquary Sir Robert Cotton. Cotton was a member of Parliament and an antiquarian, who is best known for founding the 'Cotton Library', a collection of ancient manuscripts. This collection includes works such as 'That the Kings of England Have been Please.etc', 'A Relation of the Proceedings Against Ambassadors Who Have Miscarried Themselves', and many more, which provide an account of the history, politics and government of the seventeenth century.The register runs as A4, B8-Z8. Collated, lacking the vanishingly scarce frontispiece, otherwise complete.Bound in full contemporary leather and re-backed in modern calf. Bound in full contemporary leather and re-backed in modern calf. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Externally very smart with minimal wear to the extremities of the boards, and slight marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages, and tidemarks to the corners of the pages from pp.15-83. A contemporary inscription to the title page with slight loss to pp, 95 and the odd spot. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

First edition, signed deluxe issue, out of series from a limitation of 100 copies signed by the 85 leading British authors and artists who contributed, and four politicians. These were specially bound for presentation by the Prince of Wales (later the Duke of Windsor). He did not sign this copy, which was retained by the bindery. Among the contributors to this anthology were Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling, P. G. Wodehouse, Aldous Huxley, Vita Sackville-West, Edith Sitwell, Paul Nash, Augustus John, and Storm Jameson. Three British prime ministers, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, and David Lloyd George, and the French prime minister Georges Clemenceau also signed. Thomas Harrison (1877-1955) was manager at Zaehnsdorf before taking over the London bindery Henry T. Wood. The front pastedown is inscribed "this copy is the binder's file copy, T. Harrison". Cohen B38.1. Folio. Frontispiece with tissue guard captioned in red, 16 similar plates, collotype illustrations in text, vignette title page. Original white pigskin, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, boards elaborately panelled in blind with gilt decoration, single blind fillet to turn-ins, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. Housed in a fleece-lined red cloth box. Binding a little soiled, occasional spots of foxing. A very good copy. …