rev john howard (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1865; black leather covered boards with gold titles; wear and discoloration around edges; corners and spine are scuffed; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; hinges are cracked; Interior is clean and unmarked; 128 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Undated. Small hardback copy in half brown leather binding, marbled boards with gold gilt lettering and decoration to spine, no dustjacket as issued. No inscriptions, small 'St. Judes Library' ink stamp to half title and full title pages, light wear to board and leather edges. (14/2).

Half title. Disbound. 12pp. v.g. Not in BL which has a 2nd edition only, 1830. Copac lists two copies both in Cambridge. John Howard Marsden, 1803-1891, was an English cleric, antiquary and theologian. The Seatonian Prize has been awarded annually by the University of Cambridge since 1750, in recognition of the best original poem on a sacred subject.

[Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; c; 142 [4]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary tan full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label, and further gilt tooling to spine. Also with Gray's Eton memorial and Eton College Chapel stamped in gilt to boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Black ink ownership to first blank. Heavy spotting to plates and facing leaves, otherwise quite clean internally. Much of the gilt decoration on the spine has been rubbed away, but the title label is unaffected. Light wear to binding overall. Very good. A decidedly deluxe edition of Gray's poetry, with nearly half the volume consisting of additional material, including a Life of the poet, some literary criticism, and even a series of 'introductory stanzas' by the Reverend John Moultrie. Likely bound to be used interchangeably as a gift or prize book, it contains no evidence of a dedication or prize inscription.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). A late nineteenth century analysis of the religious practices of Romani Gypsy populations, illustrated with contemporary photographs. The second edition, published the year after the first, of this late Victorian era study of Gypsies and Travelling People, with a particular emphasis on their religious practices. Illustrated with frequent contemporary photographs of the peoples in question.The work of Reverend John Howard Swinstead, chapters include 'Should Fairs be Reorganized or Abolished?', 'The Quack Orator' and 'Superstitions'.Prospective readers may wish to note that the tone of this work varies between the condescending and prejudicial, with the introduction from the Lord Bishop of Salisbury in his introduction expressing concern that the subject matter will 'contribute less that their proper share to the honour and credit of the nation in the times that are coming'With a four page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Light mark to front board, with shelf wear to spine tail. Otherwise, externally smart. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages clean, with page perimeters browning due to paper type, as is common with this work. Very Good Indeed. book.

Full Leather. Zustand: Very Good binding. Two 12mo. volumes; in full black morocco bindings, with double rules and elaborate borders in gilt, with raised bands, and decorations and lettering in compatrments; dentelle turnins; all edges gilt; the upper board of both volume with gift inscriptions stamped in gilt ("Grace H. Laflin from Her Father, January 1, 1868); (vi), 320 pages; (iv), 320 pages; with folded frontispiece to Volume I, and with engraved title pages to each volume, and with engraved plates throughout.~~Grace Laflin was the daughter of Addison Laflin, who was a Representative from Massachusetts in Congress. His daughter Grace was born in 1857, and died in 1914.~~. Very Good binding.