Francis bacon aldis wright (16 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1896. Reprinted with Corrections. 388 pages. Half bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription and stamp to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Chipping to leather to spine.…

Full-Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Covers have light wear with small piece missing from title label.

Reprint. Golden Treasury series. Owner's inscription & name on front free end paper & half-title page; some underlining; front hinge clumsily reglued; spine a little bumped at head & food; gilt bright. Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth with gilt Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth with gilt.…

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Leinen. Zustand: gut. 5. Auflage. Sauber und sehr gut erhalten, ohne Schutzumschlag. In englischer Sprache. 376 S. pages. 19 x 12 cm.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The Advancement of Learning.Francis Bacon; William Aldis Wright (ed.)Condition.Used,Cover boards show age a little but otherwise very good.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th Edition. Clarendon Press Series. 5th ed. (1900). 376pp. Original navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind borders to front and rear covers. VG copy, binding square and tight, cloth covers clean and bright, hint of toning to spine, gilt still bright, ink ownership details on ffep, pencil notes on rfep, otherwise internally excellent, no dust jacket.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Reprint. 1. Binding by Riviere & Son. Half dark brown leather over tan linen boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. . Spine and fore-edges are lightly rubbed, former owner's blind stamp and handwritten name, date and town on fep, else pristine, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD+. . Golden Treasury Series Series. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. xxxi, 388 pp.…

[Philosophy] FINELY BOUND, the third edition thus. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[2] xxxii; 388 [2]. In a later binding of brown full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt and blind decoration to boards, dated August 1930 in pencil to first blank. Top edge gilt, with patterned endpapers. A touch of light spotting to first and final leaves, otherwise crisp and clean internally. Some rubbing to joints. Very good. A classic selection of pithy philosophic essays by the father of modern scientific empiricism.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A very smart full calf binding of Francis Bacon's historic writings. A handsome copy, bound in full brown calf, with intricate gilt tooling and green morocco labels to spine. gilt doublures, marbled endpapers and full gilt text block edges. Within, reproductions of the essays of Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban. Bacon was an influential English philosopher and statesmen, who was the Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England during the reign of King James I. There was a brief 19th Century speculation that bacotn was involved in the composition of some of Shakespeare's plays. This work also contains notes and an index by English writer and classical scholar William Aldis Wright, known for founding The Cambridge Shakespeare. Bound in full calf. Externally, very smart. Mild rubbing to extremities. Slight fading to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with the odd very minor spot. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…

6.25 x 4.25", rebound in 3/4 turquoise leather; cloth, teg, 388pp with Glossary, covers a bit dull and stained, corners worn, hinges loose, first few pp waterstained, pp toned. INSCRIBED IN REAR (on recto of original endpaper) "From the library of my father, Eugene Field." AND SIGNED BY EUGENE FIELD II, who adds the date, Sept 12, 1924. PRESENTATION COPY, BOLDLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY HARRY D SICKLES, 1927. Sickles and Eugene Field II sold off Eugene Field's library one piece at a time, and Sickles (or EFII) forged the signatures of various luminaries of the elder Field's time (Remington, Twain, Kipling, Teddy Roosevelt, etc.) on books to add to the value; the even sold several fake Abraham Lincoln signatures! Whether or not this actually came from Field's library is not proven, but the backstory is interesting.…

Reprint. Engraving on title-page, title-page printed in red and black Title-page cut a little close with text just shaved at foot, a little damage to sides and spine slightly darkened, a little foxing to end-papers, otherwise a very nice copy; book-label comprising two intertwined letter "S" surmounted by a coronet Full blue morocco, upper cover gilt sun-like ornament enclosing a coronet and initials "M.S", spine with raised bands and lettered and dated in gilt, turn-ins with gilt fillets and a roll of palmettes, by Worsfold. …

Full Morocco. Zustand: Very Good. xxxii, 388 pp. Full calf prize binding with gilt crest to board and raised bands, gilt-decorated compartments and gilt-lettered dark leather label to spine; all edges gilt and marbled endpapers. Fading and rubbing to binding, with one or two small marks to board. There is a misprint in the gilt crest, seen in a few other works awarded as prize bindings by Forest School, Walthamstow, which was founded in 1834. Ink prize inscription dated 1879. Minimal spotting, generally quite clean. Notes and glossarial index by W. Aldis Wright. Part of the Golden Treasury Series. 15.5 cms tall. Small 8vo. Prize Binding. …

Full Morocco. Zustand: Good. One of 500 large paper copies. xxxi, 464 pp. Bound by Holloway in full blue morocco, with gilt borders and gilt-stamped monogram to boards. Raised bands, gilt devices, ruling and lettering to faded spine; t.e.g. Rubbing along joints and light wear to extremities, including chipping at head of spine. Ink inscription dated 1866 to foxed prelims, otherwise internally clean. 8vo. …