william white compiler (3 Ergebnisse)

Later Edition. Octavo (20 cm); cobalt blue publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and blind; viii,564pp. Spine sunned and slightly cocked; dampstaining to boards, with mild soiling and rubbing to extremities; (period) sticker on front pastedown; rear pastedown/endpaper gutter has small horizontal tear; textblock edges toned, interiors clean. Overall Very Good+. A dictionary of quotables from "chiefly the great men among the Anglo Saxon race", from Plato to the Pope, from Cicero to Shakespeare, to Longfellow, Emerson, and Byron, and more. Quotes are arranged by theme in alphabetical order. First published in London in 1852, this is a reprint of the 1853 American edition (Lippincott), which highlights a higher proportion of maxims from distinguished "Anglo Saxon" countrymen.

Zustand: fine. First compiled in 1852 featuring Shakespeare, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, etc. "There are few minds but might furnish some instruction and entertainment out of their scraps, their odds and ends of thought. may at least produce a patchwork, which may be useful, and not without a charm of its own." (Compiler, William White). 16mo. 16cm, Sixth Edition, viii,560pp., in contemporary full fine morocco grain brown calf, raised black ruled raised bands jointed over the spine edges, with elaborated black blind-stamped decorations and borders and in the spine panels, gilt title, beveled edges, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt goffered, the upper hinge has been expertly restored, in fine condition, sound, a pleasing contemporary copy in fine antique binding.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First edition. Quarto (11-1/2" x 8"). 3 volumes. xxi, (7), 211, (1); xiii, (1), 184; xiii, (1), 226pp. Each vol. with an index. Original half brown morocco (some rubbing near foot of spines) over beveled cloth. Illustrated throughout with photos (of pottery, architecture, important individuals and historical sites from the Jewish communities in China), drawings, and maps. White's work is the first serious attempt to document the history of the Jewish Chinese community. Also included in the text is a lengthy codex in Hebrew and Chinese. This is an ex-library set but with very minimal markings (each volume has a small rubber stamp on the half-title and what appears to be the shadows or remnants of some other removed labels). William White (1873-1960) was a Canadian Church Minister in Fukien and later became the first Anglican Bishop of Honan, a post he held for 25 years. After being driven out of China by the civil wars, he returned to Toronto in 1935 where he became Professor of Chinese Studies at the University. During his time in China he was an inveterate (and controversial) collector of Chinese artifacts and antiquities for the Royal Ontario Museum and would later become the "Keeper of the Asiatic Collection." Note: Vol. 3, is by White in collaboration with Ronald James Williams and it Includes bibliographical references.