Walter scott esq (14 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1836; brown leather covered boards with gold accents; wear and discoloration around edges; corners are rounded; 16mo - over 5 3/4" to 6 3/4" tall; hinges are cracked; pages are toned with heavy foxing present; 219 pages.

Full-Leather. No Jacket. Third Edition. Leather boards 413pp, plain endpapers, 6 compartments with raised bands, leather to spine with marbled boards. Leather a nice medium tan brown. Boards are very clean and tight with little marking. Title on spine is still mostly intact. Pages are still very tightly bound, all intact with no tearing whatsoever, but front board detached -- hence low price. Looks great apart from detached board.…

Hard. Zustand: Good. Good. Contemeporary half calf and marbled boards. Ownership inscription neatly penned to title page. Foxed.

Hard. Zustand: Good. Good. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Slightly foxed and with damp-stain to top quarter of many leaves.

Full-Leather. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. J & B Williams,1836. Exeter . Leather, missing a little over 1/3 of spine. 4 inches tall. Pages are toned/foxed text remains very legible. Hinges are cracked, binding is fragile. Gift note on title page and date written on flyleaf. 219 pages. Excellent candidate for repair or restoration.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Unknown edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making four pages. Pages have been trimmed on all sides (perhaps to fit into a smaller piano bench or a smaller album) not affecting any content, notched and worn along the fold from once being bound within an album, heavy foxing and toning throughout, a small stain at the bottom of the front cover affecting the verso, and separating a bit at the ends of the fold, still a very good copy. For voice and piano. *OCLC* locates five holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Presumed first edition. Folio. Single sheet printed on the recto only, folded in half making for two pages of content. A tape repair intersecting the music but it remains perfectly legible, a dampstain in the top left margin, and foxing, very good. For voice and piano. While there is no copyright date printed, the Library of Congress dates this publication to be around 1813. Bray's composition is just one of many that were set to this title and published around this time. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Owner's stamp. Hinges starting. Foxing to endpapers. 1 1/2" tear and 1/2" chips along margins of one leaf. Some rubbing to ends of spine and edges of boards.; [8], 377, cxxvi, [1], pages. Half-leather marbled boards.; 8vo.

Full-Leather. No Jacket. Second Edition. Tooled leather boards with gilt banded decoration on spine & gilt decoration to board edges. Spine tight but front board starting to loosen. Original spine label intact. Marbled endpapers. Pages all tight and intact, no tearing. No foxing present, but limited browning. Leather boards 377 pp followed by Notes (cxxvi). Size is 8.75" x 5.75". Bookplate on front pasted endpaper. Better quality than the 4th edition, with heavier boards, and thicker pages. However minor defects mean a lower price. Front endpaper soiled & torn in top right corner.…

Full-Leather. No Jacket. Fourth Edition. 1808 Fourth Edition. Frontispiece of Walter Scott. Integrated cloth book marker still intact & attached to top of spine. Tooled leather boards with gilt banded decoration on spine & gilt decoration to board edges. Spine tight but front board starting to loosen. Original spine label intact. Marbeled endpapers. Pages all tight and intact, no tearing. No foxing present, pages a surprising bright white. Leather boards 377 pp followed by Notes (cxxvi). Size is 8.75" x 5.75". Bookplate on front pasted endpaper.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Smart full-calf edition of the celebrated Sir Walter Scott's historical narrative poem on Robert the Bruce. Fifth edition.In decorative full-calf binding.Leather bookplate to front paste down reads: "Premium Adjudged to Henry Wood. 2nd Latin Class. June 15th. 1831."Page of "Works of Walter Scott, Esq" to rear of text.From celebrated Scottish writer, Sir Walter Scott, whose best-known works include the novels Ivanhoe (1819) and Waverley (1814) and the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810), among many others.The Lord of the Isles was first published in early 1815, this work being the fifth edition, published the same year. The story centres on historical figure Robert the Bruce and the battle for Scottish independence between the years of 1307 and 1314. In decorative full-calf binding. With leather bookplate to front paste down, reading: "Premium Adjudged to Henry Wood. 2nd Latin Class. June 15th. 1831." Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing, resulting in minor loss of cloth most visible to joints and spine tips. Boards feature the odd mark, the most prominent being to the centre of the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages iii to vi of the introduction appear to be incorrectly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout with only minor spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …

leather_bound. First edition. CXXVII, 209, CI (Appendix) & General Index Of Names And Subjects (6 leaves). 28.5 X21.5 cm. Frontispiece, two additional engraved titles, 92 engraved plates, all with tissue guards. Owner inscription free endpaper, Vol. II, and Morrell armorial bookplate Vol. I. Elegant binding, full strait grained morocco, gilt Cathedral illustration centered front and back covers, surrounded by double frames of arabesques in gilt and blind. Raised bands, spine panels gilt in Cathedral motif. Text generally clean with engravings bright and sharp. Slight rubbing to extremities.UPCOTT. I, xxxii. Contemporary red morocco. Aeg. Near fine. 2 Vols.…

8vo, pp. 164, [4] ads; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; moderate to heavy staining along the fore-margins of about four internal leaves, small chips to the edges of the printed label (slight loss to two or three letters); otherwise, a near fine copy. Todd & Bowden 59Af noting that 9 "smaller poems" have been added to this edition which were not previously collected.…

First Edition. First edition, quarto issue, first impression, second state of p. 3 (beginning "May rise" in line 2); 4to, pp. ix, [3], 122 [i.e., 128], [2] ads; original blue-gray paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; corners worn, small cracks and some rubbing, but on the whole a very good, sound copy. This follows the privately printed edition of 50 copies by several days. Todd & Bowden 59Ab: "To 'strengthen' a rather slim performance, typographically, one or more of the early gatherings were usually printed on heavier paper [as here] . Because of the belated insertion of a second, half-sheet (H) there is a repetition of numbered pages 68-69 resulting in the misnumbering of all subsequent pages.".…