elegant extracts useful entertaining passages von knox vicesimus (13 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Volumes 1-4 of a 6 volume set. Bound in full leather, covers show moderate wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, chipping from red rot. Signature of former owner in the prelims. Pages show heavy foxing, text is intact.

Zustand: Good. London: Studio Fallente Laborem, 1809. Sm 4to hardcover. Marbled boards, half leather, with gilt decoration and raised spine bands. xvi+1039pp. Good book. Boards are lightly edgeworn with moderate rubbing. Marginalia throughout text. From the library of American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire. (English poetry, literature collections) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Zustand: Very Good. London: Studio Fallente Laborem, 1808. Sm 4to hardcover. Marbled boards, half leather, with gilt decoration and raised spine bands. xiv+1120pp. Very Good book. Boards are lightly edgeworn and rubbed. From the library of American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire. (English prose, literature collections) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Hardcover. Zustand: Otherwise very good condition. Later improved and expanded Edition. One of the first English school anthologies of prose and poetry, in an extremely handsome binding gilt decorated calf binding. The Extracts contain an extensive selection of contemporary literature for pupils, which could be added to the classical texts already available, and aid in their linguistic and moral growth. The Prose volume includes a long extract from Benjamin Franklin's 'Way to Wealth' and Jonathan Swift's 'Voyage to Lilliput',or Gulliver's Travells, as well as interesting appendices on geography, natural history, a calendar of flora, and a chronological table of historical events. With the spine of the thick first volume (Prose) beautifully and sympathetically rebacked, with gilt decoration in the compartments and red title labels. The second and third volumes (Verse) are bound in matching full calf, with tooling differences only on the spine. The first volume with an elegantly engraved vignette with beehive surrounded by flowers, a boy in the background chasing a butterfly, by E. F. Burney. 3 volumes, 8vo, one thick., text printed in 2 columns. Volume 1, Prose in 4 books, engraved frontispiece, xvi + Viii, 286pp, 287 - 512; engraved frontispiece, 513 - 947; Appendix, 948 - 1019, 1pp ads. Volume 2, Verse in 2 books, engraved title page, vi, [6]pp, 164pp; 165 - 484. Volume 3, Verse in 2 books, 168pp; 169 - 439. Printed for Charles Dilly, Poultry, 1790. A New Edition. Handsomely bound in full mottled calf. Light rubbing at edges with a restored crack visible in the spine of the extra large Volume 1 along with strengthening tape on the inner hinge. Spine head of Volume 2 ruffled. Volume 1 with owner signature and date at the title page, Lucas Waring 1790. There is a Lucas Waring who succeeded Edward Bayly or Baillie, in 1785 as the Archdeacon of St. Patrick's Dublin. Prose, OCLC: 9639018. Verse, OCLC: 27414048.

KNOX, Reverend Vicesimus, and PERCIVAL, James G., eds. ELEGANT EXTRACTS, OR USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING PASSAGES, FROM THE BEST ENGLISH AUTHORS AND TRANSLATIONS; PRINCIPALLY DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF YOUNG PERSONS. ORIGINALLY COMPILED BY THE REV. VICESIMUS KNOX, D.D. 6 VOLUMES. Boston: Samuel Walker (1826). New edition (compiled by Percival). xvi + 416/v + 408/xv + 384/v + 384/xii + 388/viii + 372 pp. 8vo., polished calf with gilt tooled spines, boards and edges. Moderate wear to edges of boards, spines leather and gilt tooling bright. Ink and pencil ownership to endpapers and preliminaries. Minimal foxing. There is an unobtrusive dampstain to bottom edge of Volume III. Also, a closed tear to p. 128 of Volume V. The engravings are quite beautiful. Prose, epistles and poetry. Lovely set.