John jackson (34 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dublin, 1742When young and beautiful Mary Molesworth is forced to marry Robert Rochfort, widowed heir to an earldom, she finds her love is not returned. Jealous, cruel and manipulative, Robert ignores her after she has provided him with a male heir, preferring to spend his nights with his mistress.…

Thick Card Covers. Zustand: Very Good. The design is registered by Hills & Company, Printers, Sutheralnd but the local outlet at Kinlochleven is recognised. Undated c.1930? A folding panorama of the Caledonain Canal from Inverness though Fort Augustus and Fot William as far as Oban with vignettes from the River Ness to connel Fe…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 52pp hardback, later recent burgundy leather spine over marbled boards, ex-cathedral library with ex-lib plates only to front paste-down, wide margins and untrimmed edges ESTC T60069 small folio 28 x 21cm, The author identified in the text as Mr. Mundy, i.e. Francis Noel Clarke Mundy. In verse, with oth…

Leather. Zustand: Good. First edition. A very scarce first edition work on the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire, extra-illustrated by a prior owner with folding plates bound in. The first edition of this very scarce work.ESTC citation number T138001.Illustrated with five folding plates, which were not published with this work. A…

A splendidly intemperate correspondent between contributor and publisher, almost worthy of one of Jackson's own bibliophile volumes. The four items are in fair condition, on aged and worn paper, one with paperclip stain, another with brass stud, and a third with staple holes; creasing to carbon copies. Kapp's handwriting is 'art…

Zustand: Very Good. lxxii, 445, [1], [4]-ads; x, 449, [1], [4]-ads; xiii, 432, 1 portrait, 5 hand-col 3 tinted plates. . HB. 3 vols, 8vo, orig. green cloth, gt title to spines, dec. blind-stamped panels to boards. Occasional foxing. A fine set. First edition. Complete in three volumes. Vol. III, published 18 years after Vol. II,…

Leather. Zustand: Fair. The very scarce, privately issued first edition of Francis Noel Clarke Mundy's poem, Needwood Forest. The text finishes on page 48 though this seems to have always been the case for this printing. This appears to be an alternate and unrecorded printing of the first edition. A slight mystery. In verse, wit…

Technic: Copper print- Aquatinta, colorit: colored, condition: Binding in hardcover embossed in gold, Spine damaged, size (in cm): 30,5 x 24 cm, The book describes, in 175 pages in English, the loss of the Britannia off the coast of Greece, featuring the accounts and poems of William Falconer, a sailor. The title page includes a…

First edition, later issue. 8vo. Publisher's variant dark blue cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Black endpapers. Trimmed bottom edge. Without publisher's adverts. Illustrated with a tinted lithographic frontispiece and a folding map, hand-coloured in outline. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt b…

Small to (184 x 128 mm), [8], 80, 79-174, 173-133 [i.e. 233], [1]pp., without final blank, fore-edge shaved effecting some margin notes, marbled endpapers, nineteenth-century full smooth calf, boards with floral gilt border, spine tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, a nice copy. An enlarged version of part 2 of his: Countrey content…

12mo in sixes, engraved frontispiece and pp. [viii], 256; frontispiece (which is dated 1806) a little browned; in early half calf, worn at head of spine and on upper joint. A very popular didactic miscellany, first published in 1780 and many times reprinted. Later editions such as this appeared under the name of E. Tomkins, pres…