Sir james d marwick (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1909. No edition remarks. 254 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Rough cut edges to textblock. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Some uncut pages. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. x, 240 p. 24 cm. Green cloth. White mark on rear, some lighter marks elsewhere. Crease in spine.Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown and signature on front free endpaper. Small tears in edge of p. 235.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1909. First edition. xi, 258pp. and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Sir James David Marwick (1826-1908) was a Scottish lawyer and historian, and served as Town Clerk of Glasgow for thirty-one years. He was also a prolific writer, and it was upon his initiative that the Scottish Burgh Record Society was founded. He edited a number of the society's publications, and in the present work he provides a history of the guilds and crafts of Edinburgh. It is divided into the following three parts: Laws and Customs Relating to Burgess-ship, Guilds and Crafts, Prior to the 15th Century; Burgess-ship, Guild Brotherhood and Membership of Crafts in Edinburgh, 1406-1588; and Burgess-ship, Guild Brotherhood and Membership of Crafts in Edinburgh, 1589-1872. There is also a comprehensive index. The book is bound in the original brown cloth covered bevelled boards with gold titling on the spine and a gold-stamped crest on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards and bumping to the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with a name written on the half-title page. PLEASE NOTE: This is a large and fairly heavy book and extra postage may apply for delivery outside the UK.…

Hardcover. sm4to, 25.2cm, Volume Two. xxvi,667p., frontis, text drawings, large rear folding map, indexes, many leaves uncut, gilt spine titles & City crest on front, original brick brown cloth, bevelled boards, very good to fine copy (scds) - The second volume of history of Glasgow, through documents, by its Town Clerk that starts with the acquisittion of Gorbals and Bridgend into the City. Illustrated by seals and signs of notary publics. With a town plan of Glasgow in 1782.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. Hardback, gilt title to cloth spine. 25.5cm x 19cm. 68pp. 2 folding maps. Compliments slip from the author to front free end-paper. Binding slightly marked and worn. A pleasing copy. (r40).

First Edition. History of Trinity Church and Hospital in Edinburgh. VG+.

First Edition. Very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. The set remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: Bookplate of the Carlisle Public Library. Physical description: 2 v. : ill. ; 26 cm. Contents: Vol. 1, (in 2 pts.) 1175-1649 -- v. 2. 1649-1707, with appendix, A.D.1434-1648. Subjects: Glasgow (Scotland) ; Charters, grants, privileges; Glasgow (Scotland) History ; Sources; History; Glasgow (Scotland). 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Plate of the seals as frontispiece . Name and number to half title. A Good copy with some scuff marks to covers.

First edition. 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches. Story of development of Glasgow from foundation to seventeenth century. Illustrated and map. Green cloth boards, somewhat soiled and spine light-stained. Internall y clean, only occasional light traces of foxing.

Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. A striking limited edition volume exploring the history of Glasgow, an illustrated work signed by the publisher. A limited edition, this being one of sixty copies made on handmade paper, signed by the publisher to the verso of the half-title. This copy is number ten.This volume offers a history of Glasgow from the earliest traces of the city up to the year 1611, by one of the leading historians of the city, James David Marwick.Marwick was the Town Clerk of Glasgow for thirty-one years, during which time the entire city was greatly transformed.Illustrated with two folding maps, and thirty-two plates. Collated, complete.Edited by Robert Renwick. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, smart. Spine is faded with a few light marks. Scattered spots to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Various (illustrator). signed by author. book.…