house geoffrey (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Zustand: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. Ex-Library with usual markings: catalogue sticker on cover and spine, stamps on page edges, bookplate inside front cover. NO DUST JACKET. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding tight, hinges strong. AN EXCELLENT READING OR REFERENCE COPY.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

1p., 4to. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He is reluctant to refuse Baddeley's request, but he knows 'from old experience how impossible it is to pay consistent attention to anything else while one is editing The Times. When I was originally approached in the matter of the Oxford House, I was, to a great extent, my own master. Now I am not, and I can imagine that I might of necessity be an absentee, even for quarterly meetings, while, as to paying any attention to Oxford House in between, it would be quite out of the question.' In the circumstances he hopes that Baddeley will make his position clear at the meeting, 'and try to find someone who would be of greater service. If in spite of this you persist, then, of course, I will do it, but my feelings on the subject are quite plain and genuine, and I am clear that you had very much better look elsewhere.'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Limited Edition. 12mo, 45 pages, the upper cover blindstamped with a rose motif and the words "Soul is Form", spine lettered in gilt, stiff vellum, Ex libris Arthur E. Chapman. Covers soiled, tissue guards laid in to protect the illustrations. C.R. Ashbee and his Essex House Press inherited the principles and many of the personnel of The Kelmscott Press. Each paragraph begins with an ornamental letter drawn and coloured in by Edith Harwood. [Tomkinson p.73, 29th book of the press; Ransom p. 266]. Copy numberd 125 of only 165 copies printed on vellum. The vellum, paper and inks are the same as used by Morris, and some of the same craftsmen worked for Essex House Press. The 6th book in the Great Poet Series. The Floure and the Leafe is an anonymous Middle English allegorical poem which was mistakenly attributed to Chaucer, but its author - possibly a woman - remains unknown. Frontispiece and 2 woodcut plates, 85 historiated initials.