Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2015
ISBN 10: 1331835836 ISBN 13: 9781331835837
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 316 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 0483029068 ISBN 13: 9780483029064
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 314 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: LEGARE STREET PR Jul 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1021987549 ISBN 13: 9781021987549
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Aug 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 129797848X ISBN 13: 9781297978487
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Mär 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 0530448262 ISBN 13: 9780530448268
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Aug 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1371817502 ISBN 13: 9781371817503
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Jul 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 1019809035 ISBN 13: 9781019809037
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides detailed biographies of the most important people in England, Scotland, and Ireland during the 18th century. Each portrait is accompanied by a description of the person's character and life, as well as an analysis of their significance in the historical context of the times.
Verlag: Lost Research Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1355696003 ISBN 13: 9781355696001
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Verlag: Lost Research Mai 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1357937164 ISBN 13: 9781357937164
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Verlag: H R Young, London, 1819
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Leather. Zustand: Good. Various (illustrator). A charming four volume set of the 'Portraits Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons' by James Caulfield A four volume set of 'Portraits Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons' by James Caulfield, illustrated throughout. Library stamps to the title page of each volume, reads 'National Library Club'. James Caulfield was a English author and printseller, as well as a publisher and editor. Setting up as a printseller in Strand, back by his father, gaining enough success to move to a larger premises, in Leicester Square. Each Remarkable person has a corresponding portrait. Two plates appear to have been removed, those being James Macleane, Highwayman, Volume IV, 87pp and William Ellis, Volume I, 94pp. No collation available. In half morocco binding with marbled plates. Externally, smart. Minor rubbing to the spines, of each volume, most noticeable to the head of volume II. Slight crease to the spine of volume II, to the tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages have some agetoning, and there is spotting throughout each volume. The occasional watermark throughout each volume, mainly to the tail. Offsetting throughout each volume, due to the plates. Library stamp to the title page of each volume, and the occasional stamp throughout. Collation unavailable, two plates appear to be missing. Good. book.
Verlag: HR Young, London, 1819
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). The complete set in four volumes of James Caulfield's collection of biographies of remarkable people. Complete in four volumes. First part appeared in 1790.Containing biographies from the Revolution of 1688 to the end of the Reign of King George II.An ode to individuality, this book groups together people that were seen as remarkable, from William Aldridge, an aged wheelwright, to James Whitney, an extraordinary highwayman; from Aesop of Eton, a rhyming Cobler, to John Valerius, born without arms;James Caulfield spent much of his career as a printmaker publishing illustrated books about remarkable people, and began his first series in about 1788.Illustrated with portrait per biography. Collated, complete with one hundred and fifty four plates. Rebacked with the original spine and boards restored, full uniform cloth bindings. Externally generally smart with one bumping to head and tail of spine, light wear to extremities and marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting to odd leaf only, pages otherwise generally bright and clean throughout. Very Good. book.
Verlag: H. B. Young. & T. H. Whitely. 1819, 1819
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Fronts., plates, illus.; sl. spotting & occasional marginal light marking to plates but overall a nice crisp copy. Later 19thC half calf, spines ruled & lettered in gilt, marbled paper boards; spines sl. faded. Pencil ownership signature in vol. IV. A handsome set. A very handsome later edition of Caulfied's collection of remarkable people, first published as Portraits, memoirs, and characters of remarkable persons : from the reign of King Edward the Third, to the Revolution in 1794/1795. 'There are no description of persons' writes Caulfield in the Advertisement, 'who excite public curiosity more than those who have been ushered into notice by circumstances of peculiar notoriety, particularly such as have not been restrained by the laws of their country, or influenced by the common obligations of society. Men, whose daring enterprise and deep cunning might, properly cultivated, and differently directed, have rendered them the brightest ornaments of the age in which they lived; and Whitney, Jack Sheppard, or Turpin, (common thieves) instead of the ignominious fate which attended them, might have emulated the extolled deeds of a Marlborough or a Wellington; and, like them, have enjoyed similar honours.'.
Verlag: 1794-5, 1794
Anbieter: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
from the Reign of Edward the third to the Revolution. Collected from the most Authentic Accounts extant. First Edition. Two Volumes. 8vo (235 x 150mm). iv, 96; [2], 97-173pp., 62 engraved plates [one loosely inserted - see below]. Some off-setting from the plates in both volumes, a little browning and spotting in places, neat repair to the blank verso of the engraved leaf opposite p.151, closed tear around the plate mark of the leaf opposite p.143. Early 19th-century straight grained red morocco by George Mullen of Dublin [with his orange binder's ticket in the upper fore-corner of the pastedown of volume 1], covers ruled in gilt and tooled in blind, central panel with an intersecting lozenge design, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, dark blue endpapers, gilt edges (rubbed at the headcaps and joints, corners a little worn). London: for J. Caulfield.and Isaac Herbert [Vol I] and Messrs Harding [Vol II], 1794-5 ESTC records only Iowa State University and University of Waterloo (Ontario) only in North America. There is also a copy at Harvard and volume one only at Yale. An edition of 1813 in 3 volumes (with 109 plates) was supplemented by a 4-volume continuation ?from the Revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of King George III? (1819-20). Biographies of ?remarkable? people accompanied by an engraved copy of a portrait. Bound by George Mullen of Dublin. First edition, published from the parts issued between 1790 and 1795. The 62 plates were individually published by Caulfield and were also available separately, those in this collection are dated from 1792-1795. In this copy the portrait of Captain Morgan in volume 1 seems never to have been bound in (to judge by the lack of an offset on its opposite page, typical of all the other plates), and it is supplied here and loosely inserted. James Caulfield (1764-1826) was a London printseller but such was the demand from collectors for early engraved portraits to illustrate sets of the Rev. James Granger's Biographical History of England and other works that he began to produce copies of earlier engravings and woodcuts and portrait paintings. The portraits here are of ?remarkable persons? found in Granger's ?Class XII (Persons remarkable from a single Circumstance in their Lives)? of which original prints were the hardest to find. The subjects include: Matthew Hopkins (?Witch Finder Generall?), William Lithgow (the traveller), Mary Davis (?A Strange and Wonderful Old Woman, who hath a Pair of Horns Growing Upon Her Head?), Simon Forman (the astrologer), Hugh Peters (Independent Minister and republican agitator), the Gunpowder Plotters, Tobias Hobson (the Cambridge Carrier) and many other greater or lesser known unusual characters. George Mullen was in business at four addresses in Dublin between about 1803 and 1846 as a bookseller, publisher, stationer and bookbinder. Most of his best bindings seem to have been produced between 1812 and 1820 using combinations of gold and blind tooling in a number of different styles with a large selection of hand tools and several blocks, on straight-grained goatskins, russia and calf. At this period Mullen must have run a bindery of some size working for the leading Irish collectors, the Marquess of Sligo being one of his major clients. They could produce bindings of considerable originality and invention, skilfully tooled to the highest standard. Many are signed with labels (as here), but some are signed directly on the fore-edge of the boards, and many more are unsigned. Occasionally in his imprints and on a few of his bindings Mullen spelt his name with an ?s? at the end. About 1822 he was joined in the business by his son, George Junior. John and Thomas Mullen, presumably relatives, are also listed as bookbinders in the Dublin directories at this time. Provenance: Ferdinand M[eath]. McVeagh (1789-1866) of Drewstown House, County Meath, armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Later bookplate of Marjorie (1906-1983) and Martin (1900-1973) Mitau of San Francisco, probably bought from Gelber-Lilienthal of San Francisco, their bookseller's ticket is on the lower pastedown.
Verlag: London: H.R.Young and T.H.Whitely, 1819-20., 1819
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
Erstausgabe
4 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xii, 171; vi, 235; iv, 292; iv, 260. with half-titles in Vols. I-II, none required in III-IV. 155 engraved plates (without 2 called for but with 2 not called for). numerously wood-engraved tailpieces. handsomely bound in contemporary blind embossed & gilt-stamped morocco, gilt backs, all edges gilt (upper front joint of Vol. III cracked, slight chip to head of Vol. IV spine, occasional light foxing). First Edition. A marvelous portrait gallery of scoundrels, eccentrics, convicts, thieves, beggars, strongmen, tightrope walkers, debauchées, giants, dwarves, prize fighters, spies, traitors, prostitutes, idiots, showmen, writers, paupers, and other remarkable persons who lived between 1688 and 1760. It is one of a number of similar works issued by printseller James Caulfield, whose customers in prosperous times included Earl Spencer, Charles Towneley, James Bindley, and other prominent collectors. "[Caulfield's] knowledge of English history and biography was minute and extensive, while his acquaintance with engraved British portraits was unequalled by any person of his time. His liberality in imparting his information, and even the mysterious secrets of the trade, was viewed with great jealousy by his rivals. The numerous works written and edited by him usually attain a high standard of excellence." (DNB).
Erscheinungsdatum: 1819
Anbieter: Antiquariat Daniel Schramm e.K., Kiel, Deutschland
Zustand: 0. Ungeschnitten.- Durchgehend etw. stock- u. fingerfleckig. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.
Verlag: London, Young and Whitley 1819., 1819
Anbieter: Antiquariat Löcker, Wien, Österreich
In Englisch. gr.-8°, 166 S.; 235 S.; 292 S.; 255 S.; mit zahlr. Kupferstichtaf.; Lederbände d. Zt., Vollgoldschnitt, berieb., bestoß., Lichtspuren, Rücken stärker ausgebleicht, Einbd. v. Bd. 3 lose, vordeste Lage von Bd. 2 lose, alle Bände mit einer Fülle an eingeklebten Artikeln, Informationen, Briefen etc., vereinzelt auch händische Vermerke u. Unterstreichungen, Buchblocks mit vereinzelten Stockfleck.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1819
Anbieter: Antiquariat Daniel Schramm e.K., Kiel, Deutschland
Zustand: 0. Ungeschnitten.- Teilweise etwas stock- u. fingerfleckig. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.