Victor g plarr (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Ex Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Library. 250mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). 76pp. Dark green hardback cloth cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Demy8vo, vii, 986 pp. Original green cloth, gilt. Both hinges detached, browning of endpapers, small frays to head and tail of backstrip, small W H Smyth blind stamp on ffep o/w VG copy. Heavy book, additional postage at cost will be advised on processing. Buyer will have the option to cancel purchase.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. 20pp. Foolscap. Sewn and Stamped Unbound PROOF (this copy has been annotated and corrected). "Here printed for the first time by kind permission of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons with the approval of Miss Hunter Baillie" and with the Library Stamp of the College dated Feb 1913. (14pp). Then a further PROOF of 8 pp similarly presented and dated 1913. Most of his letters were published in the 1890's, but these now to be published had not previously been deciphered. Between the two sets of proofs there is a red sticker from the Edinburgh Review requesting their return to Harold Cox, Esq at Grays Inn, W.C. An interesting pre-publication item. UNIQUE.…

15th edition, revised and brought down to the present time. X, 1300 S. Orig.-Leinwand, Kopfgoldschnitt. Gutes Exemplar.

3pp., 12mo. In good condition. Plarr's entry in the Oxford English Dictionary does not note that he dealt in autographs, but the present item suggests that he was more than just a collector who dabbled. At the time of writing, and until his death, he was Librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons. The letter is addressed to 'H. T. Scott Esqre., M.D.' and begins: 'Dear Sir | It is long since you have heard from me. | I have just bought several autographs which you may care to know of -'. The authors that follow include Sir Benjamin Brodie ('the great surgeon'), Sir James Paget, Francis Palgrave, Joseph Wharton ('poet, Shakespearian scholar etc. (I think he was poet laureate, unless I am thinking of Thomas, his brother)'), 'King Leopold (the late) of Belgium', 'charming Sir W. MacCormac notes', Sir Michael Forster, Frederick Treves, 'MSS. of Victor Horsley', Sims Reeves. He also observes: 'The Arnolds should again be in request owing to the death lately of Mr. Thomas Arnold, some of whose notes you were so good as to discuss with me.' He concludes: 'Since our last correspondence I have bought two small interesting collections of old autos.'. …