ellacombe rev (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Backstrip darkened. Binding split by endpapers. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A signed presentation copy of this scarce work highlighting the history of Somerset's church bells and parishes. The first edition. Signed to the front cover, "To F. P. Browne Witte from the Author". Bound in the publisher's original boards, with the addition of a cloth spine. Written by the Rev. Henry Thomas Ellacombe, this work presents the history of church bells used in the religious buildings of Somerset, while also exploring the parishes to which the bells belong. With an Olla Podrida of bell related matters to the rear. Illustrated with fourteen plates containing numerous sketches of church bells. Collated, complete. Bound in the publisher's original boards, with the addition of a cloth spine. Externally, generally smart, with a few marks and age toning to boards. Small crease to the front board. Evidence of glue to the cloth spine. Internally, binding has split between p140-1, with the remaining binding slightly strained. First few pages are a little tight, possibly due to glue repair. Pages are generally bright and clean, with a few marks. Good. signed by author. book.

2 works in 1. 4to. x + 362pp. + [ii] + [xii] + 148pp. Port. frontis., 32 plates including 1 in colour, numerous wood engravings. Prelims. frontispiece and title page spotted, some very light marginal browning and occasional spotting, marbled e.ps., ex.-libris William Pollard, bound together in half red morocco with marbled boards, rubbed and lightly soiled, corners bumped with sl. wear, raised bands and gilt title to lightly faded and sl. rubbed spine, t.e.g. Henry Thomas Ellacombe [Ellicombe], (17901885), campanologist and Church of England clergyman. '. His antiquarian interest in church bellringing led to him becoming recognized as possibly the first scholarly campanologist. His Practical Remarks on Belfries and Ringers, first published in 1849 and reaching a fifth edition in 1884, drew on his experience of reforming bellringing at Bitton, and included a description of the ingenious apparatus of chiming hammers that he had introduced there in 1822, at the suggestion of a local workman, to enable one person to chime all the bells in a steeple . He continued his scholarly contributions to campanology, publishing works on the church bells of Devon (1872), Somerset (1875), and Gloucestershire (1881) .' Additional postage may be necessary US$553.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited edition of 125 copies, two parts bound in one volume, xx + 389pp., aeg, frontispiece + 29 lithographed plates including 7 folding maps (one coloured), 5 other maps (four of them coloured), and 5 sepia views, marbled endpapers, full black morocco, gilt rules, raised bands to spine. In excellent condition, the corners and spine ends having been professionally repaired. All the plates and maps are present, there is a pen inscription to the front flyleaf and a sticker pasted to the front endpaper marking the book as part of the library of Henley Evans of Clifton, Bristol. Reverend Henry Thomas Ellacombe was an English clergyman who, from 1817 to 1850, was curate and then vicar of the parish of Bitton, near Bristol. He was an authority on bells and invented an apparatus to allow a single ringer to ring multiple bells, called the Ellacombe apparatus. He restored the church at Bitton and built three other churches in the district under his care. He was a skilled botanist and florist, and his garden was famous for its collection of rare plants.

, xx, 224, viii, 225-390 pages, 30 plates of which 7 are folding, 12 are maps and 4 are coloured, other illustrations in text, limited edition of only 125 copies, bound by George Gregory of Bath, separate title page to part II Limited Edition , sunned spine, some pencil annotations, foxing to some pages and plates, edges untrimmed, very good condition , green half morocco with light green cloth, five raised bands, gilt décor and title to spine, gilt top edge, marbled endpapers , quarto, 29 x 23 cm Hardback ISBN: