The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature by John Clark Ridpath - 1906: Renaissance Edition De Luxe

New York, New York: Abradale Press. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. 3656 pages: 7.5 x 9.75 in.: 33.4: KB#006434: No Jacket as Issued. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. LCCN# 76-166507 and SBN 810902869. Set Consists of Twenty Volumes. Spines and front board of books are slightly tanned due to age. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Set contains over 2,000 clear, informative photographs and drawings, many in full color. This is a heavy book set, but price INCLUDES FULL EXTRA COST of Media Delivery; however USPS Priority would incur additional charge due to weight. "There are seven easy keys to finding information. All entries are arranged alphabetically. Each volume has a Table of Contents. Volume 1 has a Table of Contents for all 20 volumes. Volume 20 has a Complete Index to all volumes. Volume 19 contains a Glossary. Cross references are listed under major entries. A complete… Read More

London: J. Dodsley, 1774. Hardcover. Good +. The Third Edition. "Together with Several Other Pieces on Various Subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the Originals now in her Possession." 4 volumes (xvi, 352 p.; [4], 355, [1] p.; [4], 376 p.; [4], 364 p.); 22 cm. Half 19th-century? blue calf with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled volumed numbers in third compartments. Marbled endpapers matching boards. Without the frontispiece portrait found in some editions of this popular work. In Good+ Condition: the leather author-title labels are lacking almost entirely from the second and fourth spine compartments; vol. 2 leather splitting from head of back joint; lacking leather from head of vol. 3 spine and from first compartment of vol. 4; the blue calf has darkened and begun to crack on the spines; boards are rubbed; a few leaves are browning and foxing; otherwise, clean and solid.

New Orleans: W. M'Kean, 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. Imprint: "For Sale by W. M'Kean, New Orleans -- James Rice, Jr., Louisville -- Flash, Ryder and Co., Cincinnati -- Meech and Dinnies, St. Louis, and by All Booksellers." Vol. 2 only. 4, iv, [1], 14-180 p.; 20 cm. Original reddish cloth spine with plain boards; original printed spine label, erroneously stating "Vol. I." Spine title: Life in London, or The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Corinthian Tom, and Bob Logic. Four pages preceding title page contain publisher's advertisements (for all four publishers in the imprint) for this title, as well as Life in Paris, or The Rambles and Sprees, of Dick Wildfire, Squire Jenkins & Capt. O'Shuffleton. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper and inscription on front free endpaper indicating that this book was given to the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College in 1854 by Talbot Murray. First American edition. Checklist Amer. Imprints, 44147. British sportswriter Pierce Egan (1772-1849) was the author… Read More

Hardback. Very Good. Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1880, [first edition, privately printed]; 8vo, pp [viii], (9)-577; good later binding in half brown pigskin, green marbled boards and end papers, spine decorated gilt and with raised bands, top edge gilt; lacks half title; slight browning or dust marking in places but nevertheless a very good copy of what was to become a minor Victorian classic, the story set in the time of Charles I. Shorthouse, 1834-1903, came from a Quaker manufacturing family in Birmingham (actually Edgbaston), duly entering the family business. However, he and his wife moved to the Church of England in 1861 identifying themselves with the "Oxford School of High Churchmen". He also began to suffer from epilepsy and duly left his industrial work to write, spending the decade to about 1876 working on "John Inglesant". As he was unable to interest a publisher Shorthouse decided to have the book printed on his own account and it appeared in 1880 in a… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York, New York: Abradale Press. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. 3656 pages: 7.5 x 9.75 in.: 33.4: KB#006434: No Jacket as Issued. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. LCCN# 76-166507 and SBN 810902869. Set Consists of Twenty Volumes. Spines and front board of books are slightly tanned due to age. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Set contains over 2,000 clear, informative photographs and drawings, many in full color. This is a heavy book set, but price INCLUDES FULL EXTRA COST of Media Delivery; however USPS Priority would incur additional charge due to weight. "There are seven easy keys to finding information. All entries are arranged alphabetically. Each volume has a Table of Contents. Volume 1 has a Table of Contents for all 20 volumes. Volume 20 has a Complete Index to all volumes. Volume 19 contains a Glossary. Cross references are listed under major entries. A complete… Read More

London: J. Dodsley, 1774. Hardcover. Good +. The Third Edition. "Together with Several Other Pieces on Various Subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the Originals now in her Possession." 4 volumes (xvi, 352 p.; [4], 355, [1] p.; [4], 376 p.; [4], 364 p.); 22 cm. Half 19th-century? blue calf with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled volumed numbers in third compartments. Marbled endpapers matching boards. Without the frontispiece portrait found in some editions of this popular work. In Good+ Condition: the leather author-title labels are lacking almost entirely from the second and fourth spine compartments; vol. 2 leather splitting from head of back joint; lacking leather from head of vol. 3 spine and from first compartment of vol. 4; the blue calf has darkened and begun to crack on the spines; boards are rubbed; a few leaves are browning and foxing; otherwise, clean and solid.

New Orleans: W. M'Kean, 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. Imprint: "For Sale by W. M'Kean, New Orleans -- James Rice, Jr., Louisville -- Flash, Ryder and Co., Cincinnati -- Meech and Dinnies, St. Louis, and by All Booksellers." Vol. 2 only. 4, iv, [1], 14-180 p.; 20 cm. Original reddish cloth spine with plain boards; original printed spine label, erroneously stating "Vol. I." Spine title: Life in London, or The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Corinthian Tom, and Bob Logic. Four pages preceding title page contain publisher's advertisements (for all four publishers in the imprint) for this title, as well as Life in Paris, or The Rambles and Sprees, of Dick Wildfire, Squire Jenkins & Capt. O'Shuffleton. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper and inscription on front free endpaper indicating that this book was given to the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College in 1854 by Talbot Murray. First American edition. Checklist Amer. Imprints, 44147. British sportswriter Pierce Egan (1772-1849) was the author… Read More

Hardback. Very Good. Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1880, [first edition, privately printed]; 8vo, pp [viii], (9)-577; good later binding in half brown pigskin, green marbled boards and end papers, spine decorated gilt and with raised bands, top edge gilt; lacks half title; slight browning or dust marking in places but nevertheless a very good copy of what was to become a minor Victorian classic, the story set in the time of Charles I. Shorthouse, 1834-1903, came from a Quaker manufacturing family in Birmingham (actually Edgbaston), duly entering the family business. However, he and his wife moved to the Church of England in 1861 identifying themselves with the "Oxford School of High Churchmen". He also began to suffer from epilepsy and duly left his industrial work to write, spending the decade to about 1876 working on "John Inglesant". As he was unable to interest a publisher Shorthouse decided to have the book printed on his own account and it appeared in 1880 in a… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.