purves d laing (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. Thomson, Hugh (illustrator). 569 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.43 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Green boards with gilt lettering and floral inset [3]+4-288p +[3]+4-160p,illus Some light foxing first few pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Boards are worn and marked.Tears on pages 291 to 304 not affecting text.Tanning.Excellent binding.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required.[RK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Zustand: Fair. 1899. No Edition Stated. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Red pictorial cloth. Two parts in one book, thus unpaginated. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a prominent forward lean. Moderate water marks to boards and spine.

Zustand: Fair. 608 p., immaculate and unmarked--not ex-lib., no former owner's name; frontis. engraved portrait of Dr. Swift, with tissue guard; paper only mildly age-toned but some chiping at edges of front matter; text block firm (royal 8vo), but front board detached.red boards unfaded but smudged and bumped in places, black leather spine abraded at crown and foot, and lettering is consequently missing. This volume cries out for skillful repair or rebinding.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First printing of the first single volume edition of "The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift". With a finely engraved steel-engraving full-page portrait of Jonathan Swift to the front free endpaper, with a tissue-guard protecting this engraving, and also the title-page vignette of 'Stella' opposite. Printed in bordered double columns. ***A very good copy in the publisher's green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and decorative borders to the spine, a small gilt circular decoration to the front board, and ornate blind decorative borders to the front and back boards. The gilt is still beautifully bright, especially on the front board. The boards show some marks and rubbing commensurate with age and handling over the last 150+ years but are remarkably clean. There is some inevitable rubbing and creasing to the edges, mainly to the top and tail of the spine, but no splitting to the cloth covering. The corner tips show some wear also. Page block edges clean without any foxing. No reading lean to the binding. Internally also very good, with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean with just a few sporadic light fox-spots to the prelims and back catalogue pages. Interior pages otherwise clean. No creases or tears. Importantly, although the binding feels slightly slack, there is no splitting to the gutter. ***250mm x 174mm. 608 pages plus a twenty-four page catalogue of popular and standard books published by William P. Nimmo to the rear dated 1868, with the printer's code 10/68 at the bottom of the first catalogue page, as called for. ***Contents: Life of Swift; A Tale of a Tub; The Battle of The Books; Gulliver Travels; Memoirs Relating to that Change which happened in the Queen's Ministry in the year 1710; Swift's Journal to Stella; A Discourse of the Contests, and Dissensions between the nobles and the commons in Athens and Rome; The Conduct of the Allies, and of the late ministry, in beginning and carrying on the war; The Sentiments of a Church-of-England man with respect to religion and Government; Various Papers on Religion, Morals, Literature etc. (including A Meditation upon a Broomstick; Memoirs of Captain John Creichton; The "Bickerstaff" Papers; Directions to Servants; Selected Poems. ***First printing of the first single volume edition of "The Works of The Rev. Jonathan Swift", complete in its original cloth boards. First edition thus. A very nice example of this mid-Victorian publication of the works of Swift. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Zustand: Good. Undated, but prize plate inside front dated 1890. No jacket. Scuffs and knocks to board edges. Scuffs, splits and fraying at spine ends. Fading to front and spine board. Tanning and foxing throughout. Binding good.

First Edition. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; 616 pages. Subjects; The Canterbury Tales. Faerie Queene. Medieval Tales. Medieval Poems. English Medieval Literature. Chaucer. Spenser. 3 Kg.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Large octavo. viii, 624pp. Original dark green cloth with gilt spine titles. Covers with some wear and chipping, re-cased with repairs to backstrip tears, slight wrinkling to endpapers, faint marks to frontis and illustrated title page, slight creasing to title page, otherwise very good.

Leather. 1st thus. 1st thus, royal octavo, full leather binding, spine decorated in gilt with red spine title label, all edges gilt, gilt decorated edges, marbled endpapers, pp viii, 616. Engraved author portraits of Chaucer and Spenser. Tipped-in photo postcard of Canterbury Cathedral. Tipped-in reproduction illustration (Jacomb-Hood etching illustrating the Farie Queene). Gift inscription (1877). Previous owner's bookplate of British historian, A.W. Searley, to front paste-down. Very good condition. Chaucer and Spenser, "Edited for Popular Perusal with Current Illustrative and Explanatory Notes". Double-column text, with Purves's notes at the foot of the page bound in full leather.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this very scarce two volume biography of prominent legal figures, with both volumes bound in one. The first edition of this very scarce work. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume.A very scarce work, authorship has been variously attributed to James Grant, Archer Polson and Laing D. Purves, with no definitive conclusion reached.The preface explains that 'in the following work, we have attempted to trace the fortunes of some of our more eminent lawyers - to show the means by which they elevated themselves - and the struggles they underwent in endeavouring that elevation'.Chapter titles include literary lawyers, morality of laws and lawyers, legal eccentricity, and sketches of former judges.A lovely copy of this very scarce mid nineteenth century study of members of the legal profession. Rebound in half calf, with marbled paper covered boards and endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Volume I frontispiece restored with tape to fore edge. Spotting to frontispieces, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.