Thomas beames (13 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b The Rookeries of London: past, present and prospective.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Beames, Thomas; br/b/b 1850.br/b/b xii. 264 p. ; 12º.br/b/b 1302.h.6.br/.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Spiral-bound softcover. Alphabetical listing of Adlerian terms with extensive 18-page bibliography at end. Light tanning to pages. Upper corner of title page clipped. No other marks to covers or contents. s205.

Zustand: New.

Spiral-bound. Zustand: Brand New. 143 pages. 9.60x8.30x0.90 inches. In Stock.

Spiral-bound. Zustand: Brand New. 143 pages. 9.60x8.30x0.90 inches. In Stock.

1st edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Alfred Byard Sheppard. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Lacks spine. Spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 264, 17, [1] pp., 2 plates, 21 cm. Subjects; Poor London (England). Public baths. Wash-houses. Tenement houses. Laundries. London (England) Social conditions 19th century. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xi, 309 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., fold. diagr. ; 21 cm. Subjects; Poor England London. Tenement houses England London. London (England) Poor. 1 Kg. …

First edition. Small octavo. pp xii, 264. Two engraved plates and title-page vignette. Period binding of half burgundy calf with raised bands, gilt decoration, morocco title-label, marbled boards. The author describes conditions in the most poverty-stricken areas of London, including St Giles, Saffron Hill and Bermondsey. On the front pastedown is the armorial bookplate of Lord Farnham.On the verso of the front free endpaper is an ownership inscription which someone has failed to ink out thoroughly enough to render it illegible, and which reads, ''H.A. Sotheran, 136, Strand, W.C., May 9th 1889''. This was the address of the booksellers Willis and Sotheran, a former incarnation of the present firm of Sotheran's. Foxing on the plates has also affected the contiguous pages. Spine slightly faded. Covers slightly rubbed at the edges. Very good indeed. Uncommon. …

First Edition. [London] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 264; 17 [1]. With a tissue-guarded title-page vignette and two engraved plates. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles and blind tooling to boards and spine. Edges untrimmed. Yellow endpapers. Secondary tract: 'Public Baths and Wash-Houses' to rear. Some minor spotting to first/last few leaves and back of first plate. Otherwise internally clean. Gutter visible in some areas, but binding still stable. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Boards lightly toned and marked, heavier toning to spine. Rubbing/wear to joints and extremities. Very good. An examination of the 'rookeries' of London, or the crowded townhouses exploitatively rented to the poor and working class during the 19th century.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. An extremely scarce first hand account of the severe poverty of Victorian London. A scarce work, here in the 1852 second edition.This is the work of the Reverend Thomas Beames, a preacher and assistant at St. James, Westminster. After witnessing first hand the extreme poverty within Victorian society, within this volume he compiled eye witness accounts of the suffering taking place within some of the most notorious slum areas of the city, known as rookeries.To the front pastedown is a note from a contemporary owner that this was 'given to me by Lord Ingestre', the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, who was a naval commander and Conservative politician.Also to the front pastedown is a former owner's inscription, 'D. L. Cumming'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With mark to the boards, discolouration and significant bumping to spine, and slight starting to joints. Both a contemporary and a former owner's inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are clean and bright. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…