earl belfast (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Firm binding and clean pages that just have a bit of age toning. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Scarce collections of lectures, given in 1852 in the Music Hall in belfast. Includes pieces on Byron, Keats, Southey etc. With extracts. Nicely bound in full leather divinity binding style. With blind-stamped decoration, beveled edges. Marbled end-papers. small 8vo. Mild rubbing to edges. Spotting to front matter, else contents clean. Previous owner's inscription (on graduating Eton) to flyleaf. Binding tight. Very good overall.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Leather. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce first edition of this novel by Frederick Chichester. Complete in three volumes. Frederick R Chichester, who wrote predominantly under a pseudonym, was a prolific writer of novels in the nineteenth century. Despite the great number of novels he wrote, his works are rarely seen for sale. This work muses on poverty and the class system in England, and illustrated Chichester's charitable disposition and dedication to social reform, for which he was well known. In half calf bindings. Externally, sound with some rubbing, particularly to the head of the spines. Lacking spine label to volume II. Rear hinge strained to volume III. Front hinge strained after title page to volume II with page 3/4 detached but present. Front hinge strained after endpaper to volume I. Personal bookplate of Francis Ravenscroft to front pastedown of all volume with library number label from personal library. Internally, generally firmly bound although strained in places, particularly to volume II. Pages bright with light spotting throughout. Good. book.

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition, lightly aged, with traces of mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded once. The letter begins: 'My dear Friend | I got yr kind note with many thanks I wish you to understand that by dealing [Dacus'?] intentino if as to give you 100£ but understanding afterwards, that as you kindly witnessed [last word underlined] her will it would not be Legal to leave it by will I therefore write to tell you that you shall have it at my Death & [?] most probably before, it, & as it shall be my first consideration.' He is enclosing £25, 'yr verry [sic] moderate account & with many many thanks for all yr frieship [sic] & sincere regards'. In a postscript he refers to the recipient's son, 'established at Brighton'. Also 'Spencer comes here frequently - & Donegall also he got the [?] of [?] yesterday -'.

London, T. Cautley Newby, 1856, volumi 2, in-8, legatura originale in piena tela, con ricche impressioni a secco sui piatti (al centro monogramma dell'editore), titolo e fregi in oro ai dorsi, pp. X, 312 - V, [1], 294. Prima edizione, postuma. Dalla prefazione: "No country I ever visited interested me so profoundly as Naples. I had long heard its inhabitans spoken with contempt; but when I learnt fully to understand the tyranny of Church and State which has crushed them for centuries [.] I commiserated, but could not despise a people who have frequently struggled for freedom [.]". L'autore morì a Napoli di scarlattina nel 1853. Qualche leggera fioritura, ma esemplare eccellente.