Timbs john ed (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+ for Age. 1st ed.-. Issued in 'Griffin's Shilling Manuals' series. vi+90; 1971-dated sig. and gilt ownership label top front pastedown, faint number '840' to front endpaper plus faint patchy browning to both endpapers, otherwise clean, tight & unmarked bar the publisher's compliments note top t.p. Decorative black, blues and gilt cloth covers have1.6 cm. scrape to front cover edge, covers otherwise generally clean and attractive, slight darkening to spine and, inevitably given age, slight rubbing to extremities. Apparently very scarce. 'With the Publishers Compts' t.…

3 vols., 12mo, pp. 360; 359, [1]; 358 + engraved frontispiece and title-page in each vol. Contemporary sprinkled paper boards by S.P.A. Koumans of Delft (with labels on front pastedowns), red roan labels to spines. Title-pages and frontispieces rather foxed, some spotting elsewhere. Joints, spine ends and labels rubbed. Large pink ownership stamp of W.H.L. Janssen van Raay (of Delft) to title-pages. One of a string of popular works compiling quotations, adages, etc, in imitation of Charles Colton?s ?Lacon?, 1820. This more substantial collection was first published 1827, and works with similar titles (not counting multiple editions of the same title) appeared every decade for the rest of the century. The fashion for such compilations clearly spread across Europe, since this copy was first bound and housed in a collection in Delft.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A pleasing set of the new compact edition of this work in the original red cloth, complete in three volumes, with a total of thirty-two photographic plates. The new compact edition of this work, complete in three volumes.Uniformly bound in the publisher's original red cloth, with gilt decoration to the spines.With each county divided and grouped; the Southern Volume including the Channel Islands; the Northern Volume, Wales and the Isle of Man; the Midland Volume dealing with counties extending from the Welsh border across to East Anglia.With a frontispiece and ten plates to 'South', a frontispiece and nine plates to 'North & Wales' and a frontispiece and ten plates to 'Midlands.' Collated, complete.With one page of original publisher's advertisements to the front free endpaper of each volume. In the publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt decoration. Externally, very smart. Only light shelf wear to extremities and joints. Fading to spine of Midland vol. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with age toning, heaviest to front and rear few. With one page of original publisher's advertisements to the front free endpaper of each volume. Very Good Indeed. Various Artists (illustrator). book.…