Parr rev samuel (5 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine antique engraving. . Mounted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase a decorative and attractive portrait. Engraved By Cochran (illustrator).

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An original, delicate, finely engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Decorative, attractive and unusual. Circa 1850.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An original antique engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of Barker"s two-volume Parriana, collecting printed and manuscript notices of Samuel Parr, the notable classical scholar and "Whig Johnson." Uniformly bound in a contemporary half calf binding with marbled paper boards. Complete in two volumes. First edition. Volume I was published in 1828 by Henry Colburn, and Volume II in 1829 by John Bohn. A collected biographical and literary miscellany devoted to the Reverend Samuel Parr, drawing on printed and manuscript sources, and in part written by E. H. Barker. Samuel Parr was an English schoolmaster, classical scholar, political writer, and Whig clergyman, widely known in his lifetime as "the Whig Johnson," he was associated with figures including Samuel Johnson, Richard Porson, and Charles James Fox. Uniformly bound in a contemporary half calf binding with marbled paper boards.Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, resulting in slight loss to calf. Slight rubbing to boards, resulting in minor surface loss to paper. Previous bookseller's discreet label to front paste down of volume II. Hinges reinforced. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with light scattered spotting to first and last few leaves, more prominent to volume I. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…