J millott severn (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1929. First Edition. 505 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white plates. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Front free endpaper missing. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket (none Issued?). 1st ed. f/piece (Severn portrait photo)+xxii+464+(4, Severn list and advert), numerous further unnumbered ills., mostly portraits of eminent phrenologists rather than usual phrenological fare which is very limited in this case, Mrs Severn is included.; purple 'Property of the British Phrenological Society (Inc)' stamp to bottom t.p., top Preface, top final leaf and possibly elsewhere, top front endpaper thinned due to effort at erasing aforesaid stamp and a faint sig., outer side of rear endpaper heavily browned, slight rippling top front endpaper and half-title, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked. Blue cloth covers clean but slight rubbing to edges and extremities. This is dedicated to the British Phrenological Society, of whichSevern had been a Past President, on the occasion of its Golden (50th) Anniversary.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description: xx, 505 p., [1] leaf of plates, [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Severn, J. Millott (Joseph Millott). 1 Kg. …

Green gilt-lettered Cloth. Zustand: Fine-. No Jacket. 2nd Ed. (1st-1914). f/piece portrait of author+188+(1, advert for Millott Severn's 'The Brighton Phrenological Institution + Severn book-list and British Phrenological Society address on strip across bottom), 4 text diagrams of areas of skull; no flaws other than browning to outer sides of endpapers. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. Size: 13 cm x 18.5 cm.…

Second Edition. Good copy in the original paper-covered pictorial boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall with some chipping to edges and spine. Previous owner's ink stamp to title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 125 pages; Physical description.: 125 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports. ; 19 cm. Notes: Frontispiece captioned "from pencil drawing by Chris. Adams". Subject: Phrenology. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. A good hardback.

1st ed. Free end papers browned; page fore-edge lightly foxed; binding tight; spine a little bumped at head & foot. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-titled navy cloth. Edges very slightly dust dulled as with age. Remains surprisingly and particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp cornered. ; 464 pages; Illustrated with a portrait frontis and additional portrait plates. Signed, dated and with a lengthy inscription by the author Mr. Taylor, Pres. Of the Inst. Of Journalists. Subjects: Phrenology. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. "Derbyshire's celebrated 'Professor of Phrenology' Joseph Millott Severn (1860-1942) - a former Codnor pitboy-turned-professor who read the 'bumps' on the heads of Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Ernest Shackleton."(DerbshireLife). Pp.xx/505, black & white portrait frontispiece and further black & white illustrations throughout, cracking to inner rear board and repair to split to lower spine. Good.…

Elmutt Clifton, Brighton. 1917. Early Edition. 71 page stapled booklet with light tan covers printed in blue. Illustrated. Foxing to covers and prelims. The page of character delineation has been filled in with ink measurements o/w a clean and sound copy.

Brochure/Pamphlet. Zustand: Good. A very scarce trio of ephemeral phrenological pamphlets, including Fowler's character readings of Charles Bradlaugh and Charles Haddon Spurgeon and Severn's 1912 study of phrenology and longevity. In the publisher's original printed wrappers. Three scarce phrenological pamphlets, a curious group illustrating the popular culture of late 19th and early 20th century phrenology. The collection comprises: 1881 Phrenological Delineation of Charles Haddon Spurgeon by L. N. Fowler. Reprinted from the Phrenological Magazine for March 1881. With a portrait of Spurgeon to the front wrapper. A pamphlet containing Fowler's phrenological assessment of the celebrated Baptist preacher, originally dictated in September 1864. 1882 Phrenological Delineation of Chas. Bradlaugh, with Biographical Details by L. N. Fowler. Reprinted from the Phrenological Magazine for June 1882. With a portrait of Charles Bradlaugh to the front wrapper. . A phrenological and biographical study of the radical politician and secularist Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891). 1912 Phrenology and Longevity by J. Millott Severn. Reprinted from the International Psychic Gazette. With a photographic portrait of the author to the front wrapper. An address delivered at the British Phrenological Society's Congress at Essex Hall, London, on 9 November 1912. Lorenzo Niles Fowler (1811-1896) was an American phrenologist and publisher, part of the influential Fowler family which did much to popularise phrenology. Joseph Millott Severn (1860-1942) was a British phrenologist, lecturer and author who remained an active advocate of the discipline. In the publisher's original printed wrappers.Externally, a little worn. The Bradlaugh and Spurgeon pamphlets are age-toned and soiled, with handling marks, spotting and staining to the wrappers. Creasing, rubbing and tears to the extremities, with the odd small loss; small shelf annotations to heads of front wraps. "Spurgeon" wrapper particularly worn and stained. "Severn" is comparatively smart, with light age-toning, handling marks and minor edge wear. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages age-toned but generally clean, with the odd spot and handling mark. "Spurgeon" pamphlet unopened to upper fore edge, Closed tear to center of "Spurgeon". "Bradlaugh" and "Spurgeon" somewhat strained at the folds, stitching visible in places. In a later manuscript-labelled paper envelope, heavily worn with creasing, tears and losses. Good. None Stated (illustrator). book.…