Search Results: Multi-volume Sets from EGR books

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Five volumes. English translation Abstract of the History of England, since the first invasion of the Romans according to the Great Story of Dr. John Lingard. Full marbled calf/leather. Gilt seal on front of each volume of College de Sainte-Barbe. Marbled endpapers. Marbled textblock edges. Wear to extremities. Volume 2 rear, upper tip has been pushed. Owner's inscription in fountain pen. Light, scattered foxing.
The Collège Sainte-Barbe is a former college in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was founded in 1460 on Montagne Sainte-Genevieve (Latin Quarter, Paris) by Pierre Antoine Victor de Lanneau, teacher of religious studies, as a college of the University of Paris. It was until June 1999 the "oldest" college of Paris.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, 109 volumes. Believed to be the second (2nd) edition. Engraved additional pictorial title in each volume, 48 engraved portraits, contemporary tree calf gilt, roll-tool borders to sides, flat spines in six compartments, marbled endpapers, and green and red morocco lettering and number labels. Interior pages are clean with very little foxing. Volumes are in Fine condition with little wear with one exception. The original volume 95 is missing and has been replaced by volume 95 from the 1807 reprint edition published by Cadell, Davies and Samuel Bagster. The front board of this replacement volume is detached. Edinburgh, at the Apollo Press, [for John Bell], [1778-1784]. A beautiful set comprising the work of approximately 50 poets.
Photos of the complete set coming soon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volumes - First Series and Second Series. 441 pages (continuous pagination between the two volumes). Bound by J. Clarke in 1/2 burgundy morocco with marble boards. Gilt tooled dentelles and spine. Raised bands. t.e.g. Surface scratches/rubs to spine. Shelf wear to extremities. Spotting to marbled boards. Contemporary owner's bookplate. Well-preserved set; tight, bright, clean and strong. Numerous illustrations. Large item may require additional shipping charges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First British edition.. Volume 2 ha 404 pages. BAL 10110. BAL State "A." BAL states this edition, containing 404pp,. as the 2nd edition, but states "all copies issued by Murray under date 1822 be considered of equal primacy until evidence is produced to the contrary.". Beautiful leather spine and tips. Marbled boards, text block edges, and end papers. Light edge wear to boards, tips and spine. Some rubbing to front board covers. Internally clean with an occasional spot. Firm, square binding. A nice set.

Hardcover Condition: Very Good. 4 volumes by Harper & Brothers. Published in 1874. Illustrated with frontispiece and tissue guards. Green cloth. Spine lean to each volume. Bindings are tight and secure. Contemporary ownership inscription from 1874 on flyleaf. Some rubbing and wear to the tips and edges. Mild spotting to the hardcover. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has some mild moisture staining to title page, frontispiece, flyleaves, and few other pages. Light, scattered spots on some pages in all four volumes. Clean interior pages overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes. Illustrated with 52 full page engravings by "Phiz," illustrator of many of Charles Dickens' best known works. Rebound in 3/4 blue morocco and marbled boards. Marbled end papers. Five raised band and gilt spine. Gilt text block top. Tanning to other text block edges. Ownership inscription. Some foxing to tissue guards, plates, and end papers. Edge wear to boards tips and hinges. Square and tight binding

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Rebound. Beautifully rebound in full crimson morocco, full leather dentelles, ruled and decorated in gilt, silk endpapers.. This is the Certaldo Edition of The Decameron is limited to fifteen hundred and fifty sets. Volume I has 538 pages. Some rubbing to the extremities. This is the Certaldo Edition of The Decameron is limited to fifteen hundred and fifty sets. Volume I has 538 pages, illustrated. Volume II has 549 pages. Volume II has 549 pages. With a portrait and 19 realistic illustrations from engravings by Teyssonnieres, after original paintings of Jacques Wagrez.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+/NF. Five volumes. Limited edition. No. 51 of 150 copies printed on Holland paper "all of which are signed and numbered, was printed in the month of May 1884." (2 additional copies printed on Vellum and 20 additional copies printed on Japan paper.) Signed by the printer, Theo. L. DeVinne.Bound in 3/4s red morocco with marbled boards and matching endpapers. t.e.g. Raised bands. Gilt tooled spine and gilt tooled borders around boards. Binding is tight and square. Some light rubbing/wear to extremities - spine, boards, raised bands, edges, and hinges. Tiny chip to spine crown of Volume 1. Volume has a small smudge to morocco on lower right of front board. Case Western University gift bookplate on inside cover. Another sticker is affixed to the FFEP from "The Graphic Arts Collection in Honor of Mary B. Eilbeck." The sticker can be removed if buyer chooses to do so (similar to a Post-It Note). "Western Reserve Academy" stamp on dedication page, otherwise clean interior. A wonderful… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarter leather/calf with marbled boards Gilt tooled spine. Raised bands. Printed at head of each title page: "Under the superintendence of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge." Some wear to extremities. Volumes 3, 4, and 6 have small chips to spine. Boards rubbed. Volume 1 has a stain to the lower corner of the FFEP. Occasional foxing. A collection of 168 biographies with accompanying portraits of distinguished poets, philosophers, statesmen, artists, architects, etc. With tissue-guarded steel engraved portraits of Dante Alighieri, Nicolaus Copernicus, Sir Isaac Newton, George Frideric Handel, Richelieu, Peter the Great, Mozart, Petrarch, Bossuet, Queen Elizabeth, Raphael, Sir Walter Scott, Titian, Thomas Jefferson, Rembrandt, Blaise Pascal, Galileo Galilei, Benjamin Franklin, Nicolas Poussin, Cromwell, Leonardo da Vinci, Goethe, Napoleon, Martin Luther, George Washington, and many others. Extra shipping may be required due to size of volumes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good(+). First Edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, Bound in contemporary red/burgundy morocco , marbled boards and end papers, top edges gilt. Edge wear to spine, boards, and tips. Contents are clean. Binding is solid and square.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A 13-volume history of France from the Gauls to the death of Louis XVI. Calf binding. Five raised bands and gilt tooling to spine. Marbled endpapers and text block edges. Some foxing to flyleaves and title pages, otherwise clean interior with occasional spots. Most of the volumes have some loss at the spine crowns. Otherwise, the volumes are in fine condition. Bindings are tight and square.

Hardcover Condition: VG+. Four volumes, Full page engraved plates. Full calf with marbled boards and marbled end papers. Gilt trim on spine and boards. Some foxing. Some edge wear. Ownership inscription on Volume 1. A very nice set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Four volumes. Marbled calf skin boards with dentelles. Gilt tooling to spines. Marbled endpapers. Ownership inscription. Wear to extremities. Front pastedown cracking at hinge of Volume 1 but board is firmly attached. Light, scattered foxing and browning. Extra shipping charges may be required for international shipments.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Slipcase Condition: Fine. Charles W. Stewart (illustrator). Printed by W. S. Cowell, Ltd. Designed by John Lewis. Introduction by Robert Cantwell. Full-page color illustrations by Charles Stewart. One of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly letter laid in. Fine in a Fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three volumes bound in full calf with marbled textblock edges and decorative endpapers. Some wear to the extremities. Some tanning and spotting to endpapers. Bindings are sound and square. Interior pages are clean. Multi-volume set may require additional shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three volumes, bound in six (each volume in two parts). Full calf; gilt-stamped spines with raised bands. Gilt trim around outer board edges. Each volume has some wear/rubbing to the board edges, tips, spine, and hinges. Foxing to the pastedowns, endpapers, and flyleaves. Sporadic light foxing to the text. There is a one-and-a-half inch split at the head's front hinge. Board is still strong. This volume also has some mild staining to the front board. Bindings are tight and square.The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and former advisor to Charles I and Charles II, is his account of the War of the Three Kingdoms (British Civil Wars). Originally published between 1702 and 1704 as The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, it was the first detailed account from a key player in the events it covered.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volumes. First Tome dated 1587. Second Tome dated 1603. Bindings are tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Red top stain and bottom stain. Tome I has some cracking to front hinge and some loss at top of spine. Tome II has small chips at top front and rear hinges. Both tomes have edge wear. Some foxing to flyleaves and title pages. Tome I has some loss to the title page upper corner, as well as to a couple of subsequent pages. Same bindings and endpapers, although different publisher/printer in different years.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Slipcase: Fine Second Edition. Four vols. Bound by Bayntun Riviere, Bath, England in 3/4 calf with marbled boards. Gilt top edge. Internally clean. Ownership bookplate on FFEPs. Vol. I external hinge has some external cracking to leather but still bound tightly. Light wear to the bindings. Some pencil underlines/markings to the text (can be erased). Also, a small number of pages have flaws with occasional stains/ and a few tiny holes. Overall, the internal pages are in excellent condition (minimal foxing and toning), given their age. They have been well cared for.Eugenia Stanhope, the impoverished widow of Chesterfield's illegitimate son, Philip Stanhope, was the first to publish the book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), which comprises a thirty-year correspondence in more than 400 letters. Begun in 1737 and continued until the death of his son in 1768, Chesterfield wrote mostly instructive communications about geography,… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Four volumes. Translated from the French by P. Davall and dedicated to William Congreve. Scarce first British Edition. Bound in 3/4s calf with marbled boards. Five raised bands on spine. Gilt tooling to spine. Some rubbing to edges, spine, and tips. Ownership inscription of FFEP. Interiors are clean. Bindings are tight and square.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete with 13 volumes. Full calf. Marbled text block edges. Text in French. Some edge wear to boards, tips, and spine. Volume 5 has 1/8" loss at the spine crown. Decorative pastedowns and endpapers. Browning to flyleaves and some foxing to text. Multi-volume set. Additional postage may be necessary.