Percival mrs e h (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1884. No Edition Stated. 439 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Moderate tanning and foxing to endpapers. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to board edges and heavy to spine, which has moderate crushing to ends.…

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Original Purple Cloth Hardback. Zustand: Good to Very Good. First Edition. 1884. First edition. xii, 439pp. plus a frontispiece portrait. This is a biography of Sir David Wedderburn, 3rd Baronet (1835-1882), compiled mainly from his journals and writings by his sister Mrs. E.H. Percival. Sir David Wedderburn was a British politician and the eldest son of Sir John Wedderburn, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as senior optime in 1858. He was called to the Scottish bar in 1861. He was a justice of the peace for Midlothian and a Captain in the Midlothian Yeomanry, and elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for South Ayrshire in 1868, holding the seat until 1874. He was then elected for Haddington Burghs in 1879, resigning in 1882 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. In April 1873, he visited Victor Hugo in Guernsey, and confessed his republican convictions to the great French poet, but added : "If I said that aloud, I would not be re-elected". The book is bound in the original purple cloth covered bevelled boards with gold titling on the spine and a gold crest on the front board. The book is in good to very good condition with light bumping to the corners and heavier bumping to the spine ends. The spine is faded and there is also fading around the top and spine edges of the rear board. The book has been stored at the end of a bookcase at some time and this has left striped fading on the front board - see photograph. There is also spotted damp staining and fading around the edges of the board and on the spine. The contents are tight and clean with some scattered foxing. This is mostly light although the last 8 pages are more heavily affected. There is a bookplate on the front fixed endpaper and a purple stamp on the reverse of the front free endpaper and the half-title page.…