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New edition. Poor copy in the original paper-covered boards. Spine and covers worn. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Physical description; 605 pp., [1] leaf of plates : ports. ; 22 cm. Subjects; English language Rhetoric. Literature History and criticism. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. The Spectator began publication in 1711 and ended in 1713, and at its height sold 20,000 copies a day, according to its authors, covering all manner of subjects pertinent to 18th Century life in London. It is thought to have actually had a daily circulation of 3,000, with many more actual readers who would have read it in London's subscribing coffeehouses. It was also widely read in the American colonies. Originally issued as a paper, the issues were later collated into sets such as this one, reprinted, and continued to be widely read, long after it ceased to be published. The Spectator, in Eight Volumes (complete). All volumes dated to 1791. Printed by David Niven of Glasgow in 1791. Printed for J. Duncan, J. & M. Robertson, Dunlop, & Wilson, J. & W. Shaw, R. Farie, A. Orr, A. M'Goun, and A. Macaulay, Glasgow.; J. Dickson, E. Balfour, P. Hill, J. Hunter, and J. & J. Fairbairn, Edinburgh; and W. Coke, Leith. A very good set. Each volume in full tree calf leather hardback with burgundy and gilt morocco title label to spine, along with dark green morocco volume number label. Gilt decal borders to covers. Covers with rubbing, bumping and wear. Some outer joints worn, but all still bound. Volume 6 spine a little more worn than the others.  Each volume with pictorial frontispiece preceding the title page. Lower edges of frontispiece pages often trimmed shorter than main text at margin. With some offsetting opposite images. Text is nice and clean throughout, making for a very readable set. Text with a few minor flaws - one volume with some marginal tears at title page, and one with gutter tear to title page, meaning page is loose, but still attached. Occasional minor nicks or corner crease. Lower edge of blank endpaper in Volume 8 is roughly torn at lower edge. Some offsetting and minor age spotting to endpapers. Overall an attractive and desirable set, complete in 8 matching bindings. A particularly nice feature is the coloured line decoration to the edge of text block. Text in English. Pagination: Volume 1: 313pp + (10pp) Index;  Volume 2: 224pp + (10pp) Index;  Volume 3: 302pp + (9pp) Index;  Volume 4: 282pp + (6pp) Index;  Volume 5: 285pp + (7pp) Index;  Volume 6: 291pp + (13pp) Index;  Volume 7: 316pp + (8pp) Index;  Volume 8: 273pp + (7pp) Index.  Dimensions: Each volume approximately 184mm x 109mm x 25mm. Set weighs approximately 2.65kg unpacked. Extra postage may be payable for overseas orders. More photos on request.

Leather. Zustand: Good Only. Unnamed (illustrator). The scarce second edition of this eighteenth century study of the church of St Peter in York, illustrated with various folding plates. The second edition with additions of this work by Francis Drake.A fascinating study of the Cathedral and Metropolical Church of St Peter in York, from its foundation to the late eighteenth century. With the history and a description of the Church, to which is also added a catalogue of the archbishops, deans, sub deans, chancellors, treasurers, precentors, and succentors.Illustrated with fourteen folding copper plates, consisting of different views and plans, as well a translation of all the Latin epitaphs. Collated, complete. In full calf binding. Externally, the front board is detached but present. Cracking to the front and rear joint as well as slight handling marking to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are slightly age toned, as usual, with only the odd spot to the occasional leaf. Illustrated throughout. Collated, complete with fourteen folding plates illustrating the Church of St Peter. Plate ten has a slight closed tear. Good Only. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 352 pages(complete). An estimable copy. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spine wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spine are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very, very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming and dignified. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Two volumes (complete). Two comfortable books. Full leather. Gilt monogram of the 5th Earl of Essex (a most wealthy Earldom that allowed George Essex to safely and smoothly move from sinecure to sinecure; his wealth however enabled him to entertain, and commission from, artists such as Turner, Pugin, Horsley, David Wilkie and Landseer). Gilt borders and titling. The spines have wear about the seams and head and feet. The boards have shelving and handling wear about the edges and corners. The boards and spines are comfortable and steady. The contents are most pleasing - especially taking their age into account. They are fresh, clean, clear, only very occasionally smeared with shallow foxing, certain, companionable and assured, all very charming. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes (complete). Both copies are smart. Full calf leather. Stamped gilt cypher on the front boards. The spines have five ridges with different coloured leather patches for titling. The boards have blind stamped decoration, gilt borders. The inside rims of the boards have gilt decoration. The boards have shelving wear to the edges and corners. The spines have much wear all along the bodies, to the heads and feet. Nonetheless, the boards are handsome, steady and sure. The contents are most pleasing. They are fresh-faced, certain, agreeably healthy, clean and clear, convivial, neat, tidy, classy, with a pleasing jeunesse. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Leather-bound. Zustand: Good. Second Edition, with Additions. 12mo. Contemporary calf boards, xii + p. 136. Board surfaces scuffed, nicked and altogether abraded in places, with wear, peeling and stray-poking stitching particularly, at bottom of spine.All leather edges gilt-detailed. 11 (of 14 copperplates present, 1 detached but present). Printer's Device of Crossed Keys to title page. (Note: The author is not the famous explorer by the same name). Solildly bound copy in original binding, with fascinating copper plates depicting intricate architectural and artistic details. Cathedrals were once designed consciously, with deep knowledge of how shape of wall, play of light and shadow, affected the inner lives of worshipers and aspirants, remarkably inspiring within the "wish to Be", to rise up, to commune with God. The copperplates within this eighteenth-century study, magnificently reveal this purposed, now perhaps lost forever, understanding of sacred geometry, as manifested in architecture. Includes a "List of persons buried in this Cathedral", including Marmaduke Constaable, Hugh de Lubbersthorpe,Dame Elizabeth Beckwith, , Ethelrida, Daughter of Edwin the Great, Eadbert, King of Northumberland, John Negropontens, Gilbert Pynchbeck, Lady Mary Younge, Richrd Whittington (but not his cat), and Sweryne, a Danish King. ".With the Office of Treasurer naturally fell that of Sub-Treasrer, whose duty it was to provide Sacrists and other Officers to do the servile Offcesof the Church, as cleaning it, opening the Doors, ringing the Bells, blowing the Organ, &c. for which the Treasurer usually paid him a Salary of 50 Marks - Bot these Offices became extinct in this Church very early, and the Reason given for dissolving them was undoubtedly a sufficient one. (abrepto omni Thesauro, desiit Thesaurorii munus: Being plundered of all its Treasure, it had no further Need of a Treasurer." (p. 134).

FIFTH EDITION considerably enlarged, 1807, INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER BY DR HUNTER TO A FRIEND WITH A SIMILAR NAME: "TO ALEXANDER G. HUNTER ESQ from his affec. friend A. HUNTER, York Apr. 27, 1807", another inscription on the same page in a different hand is signed "A H", large signature of a Mrs Hunter on title page. 8vo, approximately 175 x 100 mm, 7 x 4 inches, engraved frontispiece of a Roman Stewpan, pages: [4], 5-310 including index, plus 1- 20 - Men and Manners, a list of 267 maxims followed by "A Domestic Character" pages 21-22. Bound in original quarter red roan over marbled boards, gilt rules and lettering to spine. Spine and boards slightly worn and rubbed, small chip to head of spine with loss of leather, slight wear to foot of spine, corners worn with board just showing at tips, shelf wear to edges of boards, small pale stains to all corners of pastedowns and endpapers, small old paper repair to fore-edge of front endpaper and blank side of frontispiece margin (not affecting image), light brown offsetting from frontispiece onto title page, a couple of tiny ink spots on frontispiece, occasional small brown spot or small pale stain, mainly to margins, occasional tiny ink cross or tiny ink squiggle in margins, 1 brief ink note to page 287, occasional pale age-browning. A good tight copy. It contains 250 detailed cookery and medicinal recipes. Dr. Alexander Hunter (1729?1809), born in Edinburgh, trained as a physician at Edinburgh, pursuing additional anatomical training in Rouen and Paris, before graduating MD in Edinburgh in 1753. He moved in 1763 to York, where he practised successfully in the city and among the county gentry until his death. In 1777 he founded the York Lunatic Asylum. He wrote books on topics other than medicine including agriculture and in 1776 issued a revised, updated illustrated edition of John Evelyn's Sylva and it is for this work which ran into 5 editions that he is best known. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1775, and of that of Edinburgh in 1792. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Compact Edition page 1035, No. 284. See: Keynes, John Evelyn, page 143, No.47; Wellcome Library, Volume III, page 316, listing earlier and later editions; Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica 871; Vicaire, Bibliographie Gastronomique page 239; Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 238. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.

24mo (approx. 5½" x 3"), inserted engraved frontispiece and engraved title page, both by Edward Finden after Henry Corbauld, pp. xv, [2], 18-214; original printed paper-covered boards; small crack at the top of the front hinge, small stain on upper cover, spine a little darkened, but generally very good and sound. The engraved title page with the imprint: "London: published by the Proprietors of the English Classics, 1823". Early ownership signature of "G. Chiltshire." Only 6 copies located in OCLC: Princeton, Tulsa, Univ. of Miami, National Library of Scotland, one in Switzerland, and one at the Hekekiah Oluwasanmi Library in Nigeria!

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. The History and Antiquities of the City of York, From its Origin to the Present Times. Illustrated with Twenty-Two Copper Plates. Vol. 1 with folding frontispiece map and 17 plates (five of them folding), vol. 2 with two folding plates, vol.3 with a folding plate and a folding plate. Three volumes. 12mo. [194 x 113 x 105 mm]. [2]ff, 400pp; [1]f, 402pp; [1]f, 292 pp. Bound c.1835 in blue boards and purple cloth spines with printed paper labels, plain endleaves, uncut and partly unopened edges. (The cloth a little faded and labels chipped). A fine copy, with the pages entirely untrimmed and some leaves unopened. It is clearly in its first binding, but the binding probably dates from the 1830s. Perhaps a bookseller found a set (or more) of unused sheets and had them bound in the style of the day. The work is sometimes attributed to William Combe. The "Editor" notes that the only previous successful attempt to publish a History of York was Drake's work of 1736. By 1785 that work was out of print and "no Copies were to be met with, except at the Decease of some particular Gentlemen, and for which an exhorbitant Price must be given". The contents of each volume is summarised on the title-pages.

First edition of Bentham's critique of a draft penal code drawn up by a committee of the Spanish Cortes, which Toreno, the deputy, had sent to Bentham for his comments. Chuo L4.1. Octavo (223 x 137 mm), pp. 120. Recent calf-backed boards, spine lettered gilt. Small circular library stamp to title verso. Tear to lower margin of two leaves repaired, a few faint pencil marks to title page, contents a little browned, else a very good copy.