edward rooke (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Very Good. New/unused condition with small scuffs and light staining to the cover. The content is in like new condition.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. 445-684pp. Foxing on topedge, spine lightly tanned, very good. Featuring "A Prescription to Live By: Ransom and the Agrarian Debates" by Thomas Daniel Young; "The *Compleat Gentleman*: An Approach to John Crowe Ransom by Richard Gray, "Isaac McCaslin and Keats's *Ode on a Grecian Urn* by Larry Marshall Sams; *The Age of Innocence*: Wharton's *Portrait of a Gentleman* by Cynthia Griffin Wolff; and "The Hollywood Metaphor: The Marx Brothers, S.J. Perelman, and Nathanael West by J.A. Ward. Short stories, poetry, essays, and reviews by Charles East, Elizabeth Spencer, Elaine Gottlieb, Constance Rooke, Leon Rooke, Kay McClelland, Gordon Weaver, Curtis Harnack, William Wiser, Stephen Minot, Robert Gibbons, Miller Williams, Daniel Halpern, Catharine Savage Brosman, Frank Manley, Larry Rubin, Rosanne Coggeshall, Horace Hamilton, Margaret Gibson, Wayne Dodd, Gordon Weaver, Peter Makuck, Charles Edward Eaton, Brooks Haxton, Ennis Rees, Marcy Frantom, Vernon Fowlkes, Jr., Nancy Schoenberger, Robert Hollander, Robert W. Hill, Thomas Daniel Young, Richard Gray, Larry Marshall Sams, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, J.A. Ward, Harold L. Weatherby, and Gerald Weales.

Zustand: New. Klappentext- The conversations of Burne-Jones, 19th-century painter of melancholy, abstract angels, with his assistant, revealing a loveable, witty man, articulate about his world, craft and contemporariesTo know his wor.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Johnston, Edward and Noel Rooke (illustrator). 12mo. The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks. Orig. cream cloth, teal paper, matching endpapers. xx, 434 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine is tilted and spotted. Boards bowed. Spotting to top edge. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned, chipped, large chip to head of spine with substantial loss.

Revised Edition. Very good ex-library copy in gilt-blocked half calf over marbled boards. Contains two volumes in one, labelled "Military Classics" on the spine. Spine bands raised and uniformly tooled in gilt. Marbled end papers. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed with age. Foxing and dog-eared pages throughout. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 2 volumes bound in one, labelled "Military Classics" on the spine, as well as "Arrian" and "Xenophon". Folding maps. Subjects; History. Military History. Antiquity. Contents; Arrian's History of the expedition of Alexander the Great and conquest of Persia, translated from the original Greek / by Mr. Rooke [and] The expedition of Cyrus into Persia, and the retreat of the ten thousand Greeks, translated from Xenophon / by Edward Spelman, esq. 3 Kg.

On one side of piece of laid paper, roughly 48 x 59 cm, watermarked 'J A | 1840'. Clear, complete and neatly written. Text in italic and headings in gothic script. Good, on aged paper, unobtrusively repaired on reverse with archival tape. Eighteen numbered tolls and duties are described, with their costs, in the following four subsections: 'Tolls for Cattle', 'Tolls for Goods &c exposed for sale in cases where Stalls are not used', 'Tolls and stallage Duties upon Butchers' and 'Other Tolls and Stallage Duties on Goods exposed to sale upon Stalls | either opened or covered'. Begins with a £4 charge 'For every Horse, Mare, Gelding, Ass, or Mule, actually sold', and ends with toll number 17 'For any quantity of Fish, Cheese, Bacon, Bread, Wool, Fruit or Vegetables (except Cakes on small Stands before mentioned)', £2. No 19, but the last entry is 20: 'No Tolls are payable in resepect of Corn, Butter, Eggs Fowls, Geese, Turkeys, Ducks, Pigeons and Rabbits exposed for sale in Baskets.' At foot of document: 'By Order of the Owners of Fairs and Markets | John Cruso Solicitor Leek | Barr Lofthouse & Nelson [amended from 'Robert John Barr'] Solicitors Leeds'. The document is amended in pencil, with such comments as 'What is the Toll of Cattle brot. to Market and not Sold?' and 'Do their Tolls agree with the Tolls paid to previous Lessees?'.