THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER - ILLUSTRATED -

Chicago: Progressive Thinker, 1899. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. slate-blue gloth with silver titles and decorations. light corner bumps, small chip in center of spine, some loss of silvering to front decoration. paper remnant pasted to ffep, pages mildly acid-toned - common for paper of this era..

New York: Macmillan, 1868. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 48 pages. 4 x 5 1/4 in. high. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Front hinge starting to crack, small booksellers stamp on front paste-down (Kirby & Co. Booksellers, 633 Broadway, New York), small label on rear paste-down ( Bound by Kirby & Co. Kirby St. E.C.), inscription dated 1869 on back of ffep, one small marginal note in pencil, otherwise text is very clean.

Paris: Henri Feret, 1827. Leather Bound. Very Good. Vol. 1- 411 p. Illustration on frontis with tissue. Vol. 2- 483 p. Vol. 3- 495 p. Vol. 4- 488 p. Vol. 5- 475 p. Vol. 6- 464 p. Vol. 7- 460 p. Vol. 8- 544p. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. Tan polished calf binding, gilt lettering on black leather labels on spine, gilt decoration on spine and cover edges, 5 raised bands, edges of text block flecked with brown. Condition of each volume is VERY GOOD: light wear to covers and spine, each volume with several small tears to leather covers, many leather labels missing, top edges of text block darkened, pages white many with spotty light foxing, bindings tight. Each volume with book plate of David B. Ogden on inside of front cover- Vol. 5 with small book plate, each volume with notation in pencil at top of ffep. " April 28th 1832". Vol. 1, 2- light nick to top of spine end. Vol. 2,3,7- missing all leather labels. Vol. 5,4- one leather label missing. Vol. 3- a bit heavier wear to front cover. Vol. 6- leather… Read More

A Londres [i.e. Paris?]: Jacques Tonsson, 1742. Hardcover. Very Good -. xii, 180, 224 p.; 18 cm. Signatures: a6 A-O8+4 P6 2A-S8+4 T4 (12mo). Contemporary sprinkled calf with faint remains of gilt-tooled spine. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Running title: Essais de Politique, & de Morale. Front fixed endpaper bears armorial bookplate of P. Daubignard with motto "Tacio quid mihi placet." A few words written in an old hand on title page. Translated from English by Claude Pierre Goujet; imprint is false -- possibly printed in Paris. ESTC, 213884. The second part has separate title page and pagination. In Very Good- Condition: front joint weak; back joint starting at head of spine; loss of leather at ends of spine; corners rubbed; very occasional foxing; otherwise clean and tight.

London: T. Meighan, 1743. Hardcover. Good +. Attributed to John Gother. Vol. 3 only (of 3 volumes): 534 p.; 15 cm. Signatures: A-Y12 Z4(-Z4) 12mo. Contemporary calf with gilt-ruled borders on both boards. Old unskilled leather spine replacement. Inscribed on title page "Rowland Eyre" and in another hand "Hassop Chapel"; back free endpaper has "Prayers for our Country" written on both sides, in a hand matching the Rowland Eyre signature. Hassop Chapel was built in 1806 and used until 1838. There have been a number of men named Rowland Eyre who were descendants of the more well-known Rowland Eyre who erected the new Hassop Hall in the 17th century, but determining which of them was the owner of this book is not possible. John Gother, to whom this volume of prayers is attributed, was a 17th-century English convert to Catholicism, and the Eyre family were staunch English Catholics who probably knew Gother, as he served as chaplain at nearby Warkworth for a time.… Read More

New York: Macaulay Company, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ladd, Morals, Socology, Fidelity.. Nice Green cover, no dust jacket. The perils of lose morals on a woman and her pain at cheating on her husband. TURN OF THE CENTURY, so horrid it was a major flob and considered pornagraphic. A Great and rare collectible book, excellent clean and right condition, has former owners name inscribed inside front cover, 278 pages.

New York: Macmillan, 1868. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 48 pages. 4 x 5 1/4 in. high. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Front hinge starting to crack, small booksellers stamp on front paste-down (Kirby & Co. Booksellers, 633 Broadway, New York), small label on rear paste-down ( Bound by Kirby & Co. Kirby St. E.C.), inscription dated 1869 on back of ffep, one small marginal note in pencil, otherwise text is very clean.

Paris: Henri Feret, 1827. Leather Bound. Very Good. Vol. 1- 411 p. Illustration on frontis with tissue. Vol. 2- 483 p. Vol. 3- 495 p. Vol. 4- 488 p. Vol. 5- 475 p. Vol. 6- 464 p. Vol. 7- 460 p. Vol. 8- 544p. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. Tan polished calf binding, gilt lettering on black leather labels on spine, gilt decoration on spine and cover edges, 5 raised bands, edges of text block flecked with brown. Condition of each volume is VERY GOOD: light wear to covers and spine, each volume with several small tears to leather covers, many leather labels missing, top edges of text block darkened, pages white many with spotty light foxing, bindings tight. Each volume with book plate of David B. Ogden on inside of front cover- Vol. 5 with small book plate, each volume with notation in pencil at top of ffep. " April 28th 1832". Vol. 1, 2- light nick to top of spine end. Vol. 2,3,7- missing all leather labels. Vol. 5,4- one leather label missing. Vol. 3- a bit heavier wear to front cover. Vol. 6- leather… Read More

London: William Mallalieu Anc Co.. Very Good. 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean embossed blue cloth with gilt title on front cover & spine. Tissue protected frontispiece. Text's tight & intact. A. G. Spangenberg (1704-1792) was a German Theologian and minister and a bishop of the Moravian Brethren. As successor of Count Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, he helped develop international missions, as well as stabilize the theology and organization of the German Moravian Church. Light foxing. Page corners turned down. A few page margin marks. Moravian Religion ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 118 pages .

Keiseisha, 1909. Green cloth hardcover with thread-tied binding. Used- Good condition. Book shows shelf wear. Light scuffing on the edges and corners. Small tear on the bottom right corner on the back cover. Slight creasing on the spine. Light pencil markings on pg. 2-8, 31, 173, 175-177. No further markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.