Search Results: Authors starting with A from Jacket and Cloth

London & Edinburgh: Sampson Low & Marston & Co Ltd. Hardcover. See description. 13th thousand. New and cheaper edition. DESCRIPTION: Red cloth with black titles to spine Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to lightly bruised corners, edges and spine ends. Sunned spine. Faint marks to rear cloth. Cracked front endpapers with weakened front hinge. Missing ffep. Heavily toned pages DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 208. Size: 8vo 18cm by 12cm.

London: Samuel Bagster And Sons, c1853. Hardcover. See description. Published: n.d. [c1853] Inscription to fly page. DESCRIPTION: Black leather binding with blind stamped inner border to front. Blind stamped decorated five ridged spine with gilt titles. Gilt all edges and gilt decorated dentelles. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Lightly rubbed ridges. Tightly bound with clean intact endpapers and very strong hinges. Book plate tipped in to reverse of ffep with inscription to fly page dated 1853. Lightly toned pages with very occasional small spot or mark. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 161, 585, 188, 72. Size: 18mo 14.5cm by 9cm.

London & New York: Cassell, Peter, And Galpin, c1862. Hardcover. See description. Published: n.d. [c1862]. DESCRIPTION: Full black leather binding with four decorated and tooled ridged spine. Textured front and rear boards with decorated edges. All edges gilt. Silk like endpapers. Black and white frontis with over 900 hundred full page and in text engravings. Register for the Soar family between Testaments with births dating from 1873, marriages from 1872. there is also a piece a paper stating ""Thomas Soar, His book 1862' possibly referring to this bible Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Rubbed leather boards and spine edges. Tightly bound with lightly spotted intact endpapers and very strong hinges. Heavy spotting to front and rear fly pages and false title pages. Minor spotting to remainder of prelims and rear pages. Lightly toned pages with occasional marks, smudges etc to page margins. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages xix, 1264, viii, 424. Size: Folio… Read More

Londini: Sumtibus Whittaker, Treacher, et Arnot, 1829. Hardcover. See description. DESCRIPTION: Brown paper covered boards with brown cloth spine and white title plate to spine. Language: Greek / Latin. Book Condition: Fair: Heavy wear to bumped corners and edges. Chipped upper spine end cloth. Rubbed boards and cloth. Heavy wear to title plate. Tightly bound with age toned and stained intact endpapers. Book plate to front paste down. Light spotting to endpapers and prelims. Light age toning to pages with spots and smudges to some pages. Heavily dust soiled text block edges. Pages 267-270 attached by lower binding strings only. Large stain to lower corners of pages 247-258 DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages xxi, 471. Size: 8vo 23cm by 14.5cm.

London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1817. Hardcover. See description. Stereotype Edition. DESCRIPTION: Full calf leather binding with decorative spine and black title plate. Multi-lined border with gilt floral decorations. Green endpapers with marbled text block edges Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Rubbed boards with surface abrasions. Heavy wear to spine leather with top left corner of title plate missing. Tightly bound with cracking to front endpaper. Strong hinges. Lightly toned pages. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 925, 286. Size: 8vo 23.5cm by 15cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information.

London: Printed by Joseph Bentham, 1756. Hardcover. See description. DESCRIPTION: Full black leather binding with decorative gilt border and centrepiece. Five ridged spine with decorated panels Language: English. Book Condition: Poor: Very heavy wear to corners, edges and spine. Rubbed boards with heavy rubbing to spine. Partially cracked front spine edge and front endpaper with inner hinge remaining firm. Faded endpapers with bookplate of Thomas Frewen MD to front paste down. Lightly toned pages with a stain marks to margins of a few pages to the rear. Text block remains securely bound although some gatherings are slightly offset. DJ Condition: No DJ. Size: 18mo 16.5cm by 9.5cm. AUTHOR: Thomas Frewen, M D (1704-1791), was an English physician He practised as a surgeon and apothecary at Rye, Sussex, and afterwards as a physician at Lewes He became known as one of the first in England to adopt the practice of inoculation against smallpox In his essay on The Practice and Theory of Inoculation he… Read More

Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 1998. Hardcover. See description. 1st Edition / 1st Printing. DESCRIPTION: Three volume set in illustrated card slip case Language: English. Book Condition: Near Fine DJ Condition: Very Good+: Light wear to corners and edges Size: 8vo 27cm by 23cm. POSTAGE: PLEASE NOTE - This is a heavy item and may require additional postage for overseas deliveries. We will contact you if additional charges are required. Please see our postage policy on our shop front for more information.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1922. Hardcover. See description. 1st Edition / 2nd Impression. Inscribed by author. Inscribed by author with no signature. DESCRIPTION: Green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Inscription to ffep possibly from author Language: English. Book Condition: Good+: Stain marks to front cloth. Intact endpapers and with tanning from pastedown. Inscription from author on ffep. DJ Condition: Na. Pages 238. Size: 8vo 19cm by 12cm. AUTHOR: Headmaster of Shrewsbury School and Eton.