macpherson james trans (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Condition: Good; Book is Good with foxing. Heavily foxed on illustrations. Rebound with blue cloth and gilt lettering.

Zustand: Fair. 1876. No Edition Remarks. 294 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. With illustrated frontispiece. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Gutters heavily cracked with exposed netting; feels loose overall. Previous owner's inscription to half title. A few dog-eared corners. Tissue guard very creased. Occasional minor marginalia and underlining. Boards have some edge wear, with pronounced bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are crushed and frayed. Rather scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Notable water staining to boards. Several minor dents to board edges. Gilt is bright.

Zustand: Fair. 1885. No Edition Stated. 294 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a prominent forward lean. Moderate water marks to boards and spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1849; Boston; brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles; light edge wear; pencil writing and previous owner names on end papers; end papers are foxed; interior is mostly clean and unmarked with mild foxing; all edges are gilt; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 492 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 303 pages (complete). A comfortably worn and aged copy. Poems in this volume: The Songs of Selma, Fingal Books I-VI, Lathmon, Dar-Thula, Death of Cuthullin, Battle of Lora, Temora Books I-VIII, Conlath and Cuthona, Berrathon. Ex-library (Grahamstown Public Library) copy with consequent labels, annotations, wear. Half leather, marbled boards. The leathered corners and spine are much worn, handled. The boards are much worn, scuffed, marked from handling, age and shelving. They are steady and sure. The first free page has a previous owner gift inscription. Whilst the contents are foxed throughout, they are also mild-mannered and convivial. They are tight, healthy, clear, companionable, keen. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Zustand: Good. 1825 ed. 16mo. Printed, paper covered boards. Slight damage to top of spine. Pictorial frontis and title page. Text block clean with foxing to page edges and prelims through to title. For further description or pictures please message us. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Revised edition. 502pp, small octavo in full leather, tight binding though front hinge is split, foxing throughout, no marks to the pages, corner and edge wear, mild bow to the boards, spine titles have faded, mild wear to the boards, rear endpaper is torn away at the lower corners, soiled and stained endpapers and pastedowns, nice texture and patina to the leather.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. 455 p. 14 cm. Frontispiece engraving and title page vignette. Quarter red leather with marbled paper boards. Gold and blank impressing on spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Ribbon marker. Buttom front corner bumped and edges worn. Paper discoloured at top of each board. Ink signature on a front page. James Macpherson (1736 96) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician best remembered for these poems of Ossian, which he claimed to have discovered and translated from Gaelic. Based on Celtic mythology, the poems were supposedly sung by the blind bard Ossian. The authenticity of these so-called translations from the works of a 3rd-century bard was immediately challenged by historians, especially Charles O'Conor, who noted technical errors in chronology and the forming of Gaelic names. Samuel Johnson, believed Macpherson had found fragments of poems and stories and wove them into a romance of his own composition. Regardless of Macpherson's charlatanry, "Ossian" shows a deep appreciation of natural beauty and melancholy tenderness typical of the later Romantic era.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. New Edition. 8vo leather spine & boards. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. J.F. Dove rebound hardback black titles to grey boards nd circa 1826, 418 pages with b/w portrait frontis and on tile page, homemade titles to homemade spine but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch via Insured. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.