The Earl of Beaconsfield: His Life and Work by Apjohn, Lewis

Walter Scott, 1884. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1884. No Edition Remarks. 294 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Textblock edges dyed gilt. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

London: Tyne Publishing Co. Cloth on Board. Good. Undated; Memorable Men of the Nineteenth Century series, Vol II being devoted to Disraeli and Vol I being to Gladstone; red decorated boards with bevelled edges, gilt and black embossed decoration to covers and spine; includes mounted sepia photograph; foxing and some browning to endpapers and some cracking to spine, but binding stable, back cover a little grubby; pp 296, followed by 16 pp publisher's catalogue

London: Walter Scott. Early edition. Sepia photographic frontis pasted onto page opposite title page. Dark blue cloth, titled gilt on spine with gilt decorations. . Very Good. Hardcover. Undated.

London: Walter Scott. Good+; Wear to cover, bumped corners. Bookplate inside front cover. 1888. Hardcover. Pasted in portrait of Disraeli (London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co. ) Appendix, Literary Chronology. Decorative goldtrim and lettering on spine. 500gms weight ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 296 pages .

London: J G Murdoch & co, no date [c. 1890]. No edition stated (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 296pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original blue cloth, gilt titling and design to the spine, all edges gilt. Binding somewhat rubbed and dusty, preliminary pages foxed. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition.

Walter Scott, London, 1886,. 1886. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, 296pp, portrait frontispiece, owner's name on endpaper, pages browning and edges browned, text clean and binding sound, decorated blue cloth, edges rubbed, Good condition .

Belfast: Olley & Co Book. Good. Hardcover. Some page tanning else internally in very good condition, endpapers foxed, top edge marked; cover has some light shelfwear and corner bumping, gilt still bright. No wrapper. Undated but 1880s?.

Preface by L.A. (the Author). (London and Melbourne: John G. Murdoch: no date) Gilt decorated cloth, bevelled boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 296. Frontispiece is an actual photographic portrait of Disraeli laid down, by The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co. Literary Chronology. All edges gilt. The photograph is somewhat faded. Dampstain at and around the head of the spine otherwise a very good copy.

Preston: James Askew. 296pp, hardback, brown cloth decorated with gilt angel to front board and black borders, 'The Artisan's Cottage Library' series, with pasted in photograph frontis of Beaconsfield . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1885.

(London/Melbourne: John G. Murdoch and Co., Ltd.: no date) Cloth, decorated in gilt on spine (bevelled boards) pp. 296. Frontispiece is an actual photograph of Disraeli by The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co. Concludes with Literary Chronology. Apparently the second in the proposed Biographical Series ‘Memorable Men of the Nineteenth Century’ (see Preface, p. 5). All edges gilt. A particularly bright, fine copy.