hervey rev thomas (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. ery good copy in the original, Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with raised bands and the (illustrator). 1st Edition. Leather bound Literary annual for 1856. Beautifully tooled leather; gilt decoration on spine and covers, title blocked direct in gilt. Gilt edged all around. Poems, short stories, sketches. 264 pages. Deep brown endpapers. Title page is missing along with the colored frontispiece. (unfortunately). Lithographed by Thomas Sinclair, Philadelphia.Includes Five of the Nine full-page b/w engravings; 5/9 engravings present; the Missing plates are pages: 149, 117, 79 and no frontis!This Annual includes the Special historical writing by James Baillie Fraser "Zalim Khan, a Tale of Modern Persia" Fraser's other travel studies include Journal of a Tour through Part of the Himala Mountains and to the Sources of the Jumna and the Ganges (1820);A Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan in the Years 1821 and 1822, including some Account of the Countries to the North-East of Persia (1825); and Travels and Adventures in the Persian Provinces on the Southern Banks of the Caspian Sea (1826). ALSO-34 literary works with Poems by John Clare, Miss H. F. Gould, Thomas Kibble Hervey, Thomas Moore, Rev. Charles Hughes Terrot, Alaric A. Watts, (missing p. 149-150 Gypsies by Wordsworth), and Anonymous.

8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), illustrations and plans (a number full-page) in the text, and double-page map coloured in outline, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; brown cloth, upper board framed and blocked in black and lettered in gilt, gilt back, primrose endpapers, a near fine copy. Abridged version of the original edition of 1880. AN OUTSTANDING COPY. EXTREMELY SCARCE.