matthew sir robert (16 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 130p, with 78 illustrations (some are in colour) and end-paper plans, a VG hardback (full patterned hessian) [0852242158].

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Edition 1972. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Edition 1972. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

APPROX A4 SIZE 39 PAGES FADED STAINED RUBBED CREASED FOXED.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in decorative beige cloth boards with green lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 130pp. Photographs throughout, map endpapers. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (61/4).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Slim 8vo.pp. 76. Original publisher's wraps in pale green, lettered brown. Proceedings of the First Seminar on Architectural Research in Commonwealth and United Kingdom universities, held at the University of Edinburgh, January, 1972. Very good. Slight creasing. Very slight tanning at edges.

xiii, 207pp, many tables and maps; xi, 236pp, many tables etc. 31x22, blue cloth, glt text, attractive patterned dw, two uniform volumes Both dws a bit rubbed with a couple of closed tears, cloth and contents very good This was the second Regional Survey done in this slightly unusual way, with two different volumes being developed separately, the same team having worked on The Lothians Survey and Plan two years previously. The collaboration here delivered a reasonably integrated plan for growth, with suggestions for local government restructuring to administer the proposals better. [Heavy item, may require additional postage to most destinations].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Maps only, not the companion survey volume, very good tight condition, maps (4) only and illustration of panoramic views of belfast, in green slipcase with gilt on spine.

Hardcover. First Edition. Large Octavo, [4], 236, [4], 237-482 pages. In Good condition. Rebacked with light brown calf, full tree calf boards with gilt-lettered black leather spine label. Boards have light wear to leather at head and tail of spine, moderate wear ad bumping to corners, light plus wear to edges and overall. Text block shows moderate age toning and several instances of staining to edges, light age toning and some occasional foxing to pages interiorly throughout, excised previous booksellers' catalogue descriptions pasted to front free end page, and former bookseller's pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and front free end page. Shelved Room G. EH Consignment. Assembled by M.G. Lewis, author of the The Monk, Tales of Wonder was the first published anthology of supernatural and horror poetry in the English language. Including poems by Lewis, as well as the following: Sir Walter Scott, John Leyden, Ben Johnson, John Dryden, Robert Burns, Glover, Mallet, Ransay, Harrington, and Gray. Though critically panned upon its release, it proved to be a significant influence on the Romantics and 19th century writers of supernatural fiction. Lewis was assisted by Walter Scott in assembling these volumes, and Tales of Wonder features some of the earliest publications of Scott's writing, including both original works of poetry as well as his translations of Bürger's Der wilde Jäger and Lenore. 1381650. Special Collections.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. The name of the addressee has been amended from 'J. B. Waring' to 'J. R. Planché Eqr.' In 1854 Wyatt and Waring had collaborated on four architectural guidebooks to the courts of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, and the present item relates to sculptures present there. The letter beings iwth Wyatt thanking Planché for 'a copy of your interesting comments on Professor Cockerell's views with respect to the Wells & other sculptures', which he has read 'with care and interest'. They only serve to confirm the original impression which in my mind when I first heard Cockerell promulgate his theory at one of the Academy lectures some 12 years ago, viz - that there existed no evidence worthy of credit for the clear identification of one quarter of the whole number of statues.' As 'Carter, Gough, and others' have 'failed altogether', and as Cockerell's theory has gone uncontradicted 'neither Waring nor I had any other alternative than to cite his work and his authority as all of any importance that had been written on the subject. | Should our handbook ever reach another edition it will be our duty to allude to that as doubtful which at the date of our publication had not been contravened.'.

A contemporary manuscript note to the present item reveals for the first time the identity of 'Niger', one of the two correspondents of whose letters it consists. (And minor manuscript corrections to the last of the four letters would seem to suggest the involvement of the author.) This is Sir James Robert Carmichael (1817-1883), 2nd Bart, who was intimately connected with British Guiana through his father Sir James Carmichael-Smyth (1779-1838). Having served from 1829 as governor of the Bahamas (where he abolished the flogging of female slaves), Carmichael-Smyth had been appointed governor of British Guiana in June 1833. According to Carmichael-Smyth's entry in the Oxford DNB, he 'arrived at Georgetown, Demerara, shortly before the emancipation of slaves, when much depended on the governor. Unmoved by the reckless hostility of a section of the planters, Carmichael-Smyth by a firm, impartial, and vigorous government won the confidence of the slaves. He so closely supervised every department of government that, as he himself observed, he could sleep satisfied that no person could be punished without his knowledge and sanction. Carmichael-Smyth died suddenly at Camp House, Georgetown, Demerara, of 'brain fever', after four days' illness, on 4 March 1838; he was widely esteemed and his death much regretted.' The other correspondent, 'Jacob Omnium', is Thackeray's friend Matthew James Higgins (1810-1868), whose entry in the Oxford DNB states: 'In 18389 he visited British Guiana, where he later inherited the Alliance estate after the death of his mother, and repeated the visit in 18467. This experience enabled him to keep his estate in good order during the critical period which followed the abolition of slavery, and to put the case for the West India planters in defence of the protective sugar duties. He wrote four effective pamphlets upon the difficulties of the sugar-producing colonies in 1847 and 1849.' The material consists of eight long letters, in small print, to the Globe and The Times, laid down on nine foolscap 8vo pages over six leaves extracted from an album. The total length of text, in 7-inch wide columns, is 430 cm. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, on worn leaves. The first four letters, from 'Niger' to the editor of the London newspaper the Globe, are on the subject of 'British Guiana and Governor Barkly'. These four are dated 29 and 30 January, 9 February and 2 March 1850. 'NIGER' is identified in a contemporary hand at the end of the first letter as 'Sir J R Carmichael'. The last four letters are an somewhat intemperate exchange in The Times of two letters apiece between 'NIGER', writing from London on 30 October (headed 'A WORD TO WEST INDIA PROPRIETORS') and 12 November, and 'JACOB OMNIUM', writing from Lombard Street on 10 and 16 November. At the start of the first of his letters to the Globe, Carmichael states his position: 'Mr Barkly has earned so high a reputation among men of all parties, both in his late position in Parliament, and in the discharge of his present arduous functions in Guiana, that he may well afford to despise the bitter revilings of disappointed faction; but the article in question contains allegations so unfair, ungenerous, and unscrupulous in their nature, that I consider the public should be made acquainted with the true state of the case at issue between the Morning Chronicle and the Governor of Guiana.' This he proceeds to do, presenting a mass of detail, including some taken from 'the lastest accounts' he has received from 'the West India mail'. In the first of his letters to The Times, Carmichael discusses 'the treatment the unfortunate race of Africa hae met with at the hands of the white man': 'I have known a slave to be destroyed by torture, and a fine inflicted on the overseer as a punishment; but these, thank God, are tales of a bigone day. My only object in alluding to them is, to point out to the West India proprietors that they have been guilty of a great and sad dereliction of duty, of which they are now reaping the unavoidable punishment. They have treated the colonies as hotbeds from whence to forcec money into their pockets; they have forgotten what they owed to those whose toil supplied their wants and luxuries'. Higgins responds: 'All that "Niger" says concerning the unhappy fate of the slaves in the British West Indies in bygone days may, for all I know, be most accurate. I cannot, however, divine why he has reverted to it. [.] Without disputing the accuracy of his picture of West Indian cruelty and West Indian mismanagement under the obsolete system of slavery, I submit that it is [.] unfair and irrelevant to endeavour to introduce it into the present question between Lord John Russell and the free-labour sugar-growers'. In his last letter Higgins complains: 'Your correspondent, "Niger," preserves a great advantage over me. He well knows who I am, the nature of my connexion with the colonies, and the habits of my family, and he very skilfully, and I think somewhat unhandsomely, turns the minutest points of that knowledge to his advantage, whilst he carefully preserves his own incognito, affording me no clue whereby I may infer what manner of man my assailant is.' While acknowledging 'Niger' to be 'a very able partisan', Higgins concludes by accusing him of 'doing his best to throw dust in the eyes of the British nation'. See Scan. I've yet to find an example of Carmichael-Smyth's handwriting to make a judgment on the signature. The setting out of the articles suggests a personal interest (even file copy).