GOOD HARDBACK COPY IN MAROON CLOTH BROWN SPINE WITH GOLD LETTERING TRANSLATED BY HORACE WALPOLE WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY WILFRID JONES. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES 1928. BOOKPLATE ON F.E.P
FIVE VOLUMES IN FULL LEATHER. PRIME MINISTER OF HENRY THE GREAT: WITH THE TRIAL OF FRANCIS RAVAILLAC. AN APPENDIX CONTAINING REPUTATIONS OF THE ABBE DE L’ECLUSE’S CORRECTIONAL NOTES EXCULPATORY OF THE JESUITS A NEW EDITION CAREFULLY CORRECTED EMBELLISED WITH PORTRAITS. INTERNALLY VERY GOOD BUT THE BINDINGS ARE POOR WITH LOSS OF LEATHER TO SPINES. A GOOD WORKING SET OR FOR REBINDING.
VERY NICELY BOUND IN HALF BLUE LEATHER OVER BLUE BOARDS – RAISED BANDS WITH GILT DECORATION. GILT TITLE MARBLED ENDPAPERS AND EDGES. 410 PAGES. VIGNETTE OF LOWE AND FRONTISPICE OF LONG WOOD. WITH A LETTER FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM DATED 1894 PASTED IN CONCERNING A POSSIBLE BOOK ON HUDSON LOWE BY HIS SON. THE BINDING IS VERY FIRM EXTERNAL CONDITION VERY GOOD INTERNALLY VERY GOOD EXCEPT FOR SOME WATER STAINING TO SOME PAGES.
VERY GOOD HARDBACK COPY IN BROWN CLOTH. QUEEN VICTORIA AND PRINCE ALBERT’S FIRST PROGRESS IN SCOTLAND. ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS. THE BOOK HAS BEEN REBOUND WITH THE ADDITION OF A NEW SPINE.
FIRST EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS GILT DECORATATIVE SPINES. SLIGHT WEAR TO THE LEATHER BUT A VERY GOOD SET TIGHTLY BOUND AND CLEAN.
VERY GOOD LARGE HARDBACK IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP (SLIGHTLY GRUBBY). A TOPOGRAPHICAL AND SOCIAL SURVEY OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN LONDON ABOUT 1750. THE 374 ILLUSTRATIONS AND 17 COLOUR PLATES OF THIS BOOKCONSTITUTE A VERITIABLE WINDOW INTO THE LIFE OF MID GEORGIAN LONDON. HERE WE MEET ALL TYPES FROM HIGHWAYMAN TO NOBELMEN THE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE PLACED IN SEQUENCE TO PRESENT A PICTORIAL TOUR AROUND CENTRAL AND WESTERN LONDON FROM WESTMINSTER ABBEY TO PARK LANE.
TWO VOLUMES QUARTO FULL LEATHER RAISED BANDS MARBLED ENDPAGES AND EDGES. WITH MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS COMPOSED BY HIMSELF: ILLUSTRTAED FROM HIS LETTERS WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES AND NARRATIVE BY JOHN LORD SHEFFIELD. VOL. 1 xxv1 703 pp. VOL.2 v1 728 pp. THE BOOKS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN RECASED USING THE ORIGINAL BOARDS WHICH ARE RUBBBED AND WORN AT THE CORNERS BUT A VERY GOOD SET INTERNALLY VERY CLEAN AND TIGHT IN THE BINDING. EXTRA POSTAGE REQUIRED OUTSIDE THE UK.
FIRST EDITION A NEW BOOK NO DUSTWRAPPER BLACK CLOTH. CONTAINS ARTICLES ON: THOMAS IAN RAE; EDWARD I’S ARMY; JOHN GRAHAM OF CLAVERHOUSE; CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE MILLBURN TOWER.
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