Verlag: Hurst and Blackett Limited, 1885
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. 1885. 488 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Volume I. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.
Verlag: London. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903
Anbieter: Richard V. Wells ABA, ILAB, TEIGNMOUTH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Vol.II of two only. 8vo (220 x 141). pp, viii, 364. Ex W.H. Smith subscription library. Usual labels, stamps and marks. Watermarks at foot of first and last few pages. Fore and bottom edges uncut. Dark blue and gilt cloth. Water stains to foot of both boards. Tears and small repaired loss to spine. Corners bumped and worn. A reading copy.
Verlag: Hurst & Blackett,, London,, 1885
Anbieter: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp xii, 488; vi, 456. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered gilt at the spines. Heads of spine chipped and nicked, otherwise sound, slightly used, close very good set with clean text.
Verlag: Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1904
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Leather. Zustand: Fine. None (illustrator). A set of biographies detailing the history of the Bernard family of Abington Park and the surrounding area. Abington Park Museum was originally a manor house built at the turn of the 16th century. The Great Hall, now called the Oak Room because of its oak panelling, dates back to 1500. It was once home to William Shakespeare's granddaughter, Elizabeth Bernard (née Elizabeth Hall), who was buried in 1670 in the adjacent late 12th century church of St Peter and St Paul. Her second marriage was to Sir John Bernard or Barnard, the MP for Huntingdon from 1660, who successively enlarged the house in the 1660s. It passed to the Thursby family in 1669 and was further enlarged and remodelled in the classical Georgian style between 1738 and 1743 by William Thursby. Volume I contains a tipped-in letter from the author to a previous owner and the author's signature to the front free-endpaper. Volumes I-IV of a four volume set. In half-calf bindings with marbled boards. Externally, very smart. Internally, tight and firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean, with just some scattered spotting to the endpapers Fine. book.