Miss hunt (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. First Edition. G+ 1st 178pp. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. viii, 400. Numerous labelled black and white engraved plates and other in-text engravings. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt decorations and text on spine; blind embossed covers. Spine label sunned and gilt faded, ends rubbed. Covers worn with cloth rubbed through at places on edges. Corners worn and rubbed, board corners exposed. Previous owner's inscription on verso of first page. Very mild foxing to prelim pages, otherwise internally clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Pen portraits of the likes of the mid-19th century dress-maker, medical student, parish beadle, teetotaller, midshipman, common informer, pew-opener, chimney-sweep, stock-broker, maid etc. Meadows, Kenny (illustrator).…

Hutchinson & Co. No date, circa 1950. Hardback in DW. Gorgeous green cloth, illustrated with skeleton to upper board and ghoul to spine. 704 pages. Endpaper foxed and margins of pages very browned. A remarkably clean copy in price-clipped wrapper that is very worn to extremities lacking portions to head of spine and has been internally re-enforced with tape along top and lower edges.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. The fourth edition of this English translation of Voltaire's protege Charles Louis de Villete's essay on happiness. The fourth edition of this work. Bound without half-title. This work is selected extracts from Villette's work 'Essai sue la Felicite de la Vie a-Venir', a philosophical essay on happiness. Originally written in French by Charles Louis de Villette, who was the protege of Voltaire. Translated into English by a Miss Hunt, with alterations and additions. Bookplate to the front pastedown, 'William Scott Kerr, of Chatto'. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front free endpaper. In a full leather binding. Externally, generally smart. Fading to the head of the front board and to the spine. Light rubbing to the boards and spine, heavier to the front board. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…