Verses von clark john (5 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Good. Folio. String-Bound Blue Deckled Wraps With Printed Paper Label Affixed to Cover, Letterpress on Watermarked (De Fortuin) Deckled Laid Paper. Lined borders. [16 pp.] Good with a few tiny marginal tears, light toning along spine of covers, else Near Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Frontispiece photographic portrait. First Edition. 8vo. [207 x 134 x 41 mm]. xiii, [v], 351 pp. Bound in the original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine, plain endleaves, uncut edges. (Slight rubbing to front joint). A fine copy. John Aubrey Clark (1826-1890) was the son of Cyrus Clark (1801-1866), the co-founder of the family shoemakers based at Street in Somerset, and his wife, Sarah Bull, to whom this edition is dedicated. The Preface is signed E.A.C., who was presumably a Clark, and explains that many of the poems relate directly to Street. There are two neat ink inscriptions: "To Stephen and Marianna Clark, Christmas 1958 from R. & S. B. C." [Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark] and "It belonged to Mary Bright Curry & came at her death from Cumberland Lodge, Bathwick Hill, Bath". Mary Bright Curry was the daughter of the Liberal politician John Bright and his second wife Elizabeth Leatham. In 1866 her elder half-sister, Helen Priestman Bright, married William Stephens Clark, the nephew of Cyrus Clark.…

1897, 1st Edition. (Cloth) Very good. 351pp. Frontispiece port. Gilt-printed green cloth boards but lightly shelf worn, the spine a trifle dulled. Endpaper missing. Hinges fore & aft tender. T.e.g. Clean and bright within. "In Remembrance - Written from 1839 to 1889.".