Oxford Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Lang, Andrew - 1893

Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Seeley & Co, London, UK 1905. 282 pages. Moderate general wear. Cloth torn on spine/rear board. Book has a 1916 three page letter left on front endpaper. Size: 12mo 6.75 - 7.75'' tall. History::Localities History::Britain 6994

BiblioLife, 2009-09-19. Paperback. Used:Good.

BiblioLife, 2009-09-20. Hardcover. Used:Good.

London: Seeley and Co., Limited, 1890. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Various. Andrew Lang's vivid description of the history of Oxford and it's university, illustrated with many plates throughout. Andrew Lang's descriptive history of Oxford, where he studies at Balliol College. Lang takes the reader across the history of the city and notes important events, and how the city developed with the university over time.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and thirty-nine plates and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.Lang is best remembered now for his 'Fairy Books', a series of twenty-five short story collections pertaining to mythology and fairy tales, the first published being 'The Blue Fairy Book' in 1889.Illustrated by a variety of different artists.Ink inscription to the reverse of the half-title, 'Ernest S. Davies, (from T. H. D.)'. Ernest Salter Davies was a Welsh teacher and educationalist, known for being the director of education in Kent from 1918 to 1938. He held a great influence into the… Read More

London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1896. xvi, 282pp., [vi] pub. cat. Fine copy with pub. original maroon binding, gilt. Illus. throughout with plates and sketches. A lovely unfaded copy with no marks. Neat gift inscription dated 1897. Magellan Tower frontis.. sixth edition. Hardback. Fine. 8vo.

London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1880. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG- for age. A. Brunet-Debaines, H.Toussaint and R. Kent Thomas. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to fr. and sp. plus gilt coat of arms to fr., clean, extremities all rubbed to varying extents.All edges gilt. Etched f/piece + 56, 9 further etched plates ex-pagination, numerous text vignettes; main problem is heavy tanning to recto (but not image) of f/piece and last page, but this seems to be common to all copies, t.p. also largely, but lightly, tanned, tanning spots to most plates, gutter incipiently opening after f/piece and others tender throughout although text-block basically secure. A bright and attractive copy of this fairly uncommon folio though needs a little discreet attention to gutters. 25.5 cm x 35.5 cm

London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1880. First edition. Etchings & Vignettes by A. Brunet-Debaines, H. Toussaint and R. Kent Thomas. 56 pp. 1 vols. Small Folio. Brown pebbled cloth, a.e.g.. Fine, some minor offsetting from the plates, plates very clean. First edition. Etchings & Vignettes by A. Brunet-Debaines, H. Toussaint and R. Kent Thomas. 56 pp. 1 vols. Small Folio.