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Published by William Baynes And Son, 1824
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1824. Fifth Edition. 404 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Full bound red leather. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout, notable in places. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Small tears to front hinge. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Heavy tanning and mild scuffing to spine. Library number and stickers to spine.
Published by London: W. Nicholson, 1804, 1804
Seller: Atlantic Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. 8vo, calf-gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 420pp. 4th edition. Volume III only. Stamped "Famam Extendimus Factis" on the cover above "G.D." so presumably George Douglas, whose motto this was. A VG copy: light foxing to the text, light rubbing to the joints, mild rubbing to the corners.
Published by London: W. Nicholson, 1804, 1804
Seller: Atlantic Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. 8vo, calf-gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 446pp. 4th edition. Volume IV only. Stamped "Famam Extendimus Factis" on the cover above "G.D." so presumably George Douglas, whose motto this was. A VG copy: light foxing to the text, light rubbing to the joints, mild rubbing to the corners.
Published by London: W. Nicholson, 1804, 1804
Seller: Atlantic Bookshop, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. 8vo, calf-gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, frontis., 407pp. 4th edition. Volume I only. Stamped "Famam Extendimus Factis" on the cover above "G.D." so presumably George Douglas, whose motto this was. A VG copy: light foxing to the text, rubbing to the joints, mild rubbing to the corners.
Published by T. Davies, 1775
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1775. Second Edition. 376 pages. Fully bound in brown leather. Front board is detached. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Light thumb-marking present. Binding is slightly shaky. Heavy cracking to front hinge with front board detached. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Front board is detached. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Heavy splits to joints.
Published by T Davies, 1775
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. 1775. T Davies. Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles, leather bound. Internally in great order. Leather is worn on the extremities. 8x5.
Published by Published by J. Rivington and Sons, B. Law, J. Robson, G. Robinson and Others, London, 1779
, 4 uniform volumes, 407, 436, 420, and 376 pages, plus index at end of volume four Third Edition , spines rubbed and with some loss at head and tails, a few marks to boards, previous owner's bookplates at front of each volume, some weakened joints but holding, text clean, books in good condition , full tan calf, gilt titles on brown leather labels, gilt bands to spine and gilt board edges, black top edge Octavo Hardback ISBN:
Published by William Baynes and Son, London, 1824
Leather. Condition: Good Only. None (illustrator). A biographical history of influential Englishmen from Saxon times to the eighteenth century. Fifth edition, with upwards of four hundred additional lives. 'Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system and a help to the knowledge of portraits: interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons, not to be found in any other biographical work.' Including biographies of Henry Booth, Richard Talbot, Samuel Clarke and many others. Bookplate of Colchester Public Library to front pastedowns. Complete in six volumes. In half-morocco bindings. Externally, smart, though with some slight rubbing. Insitutional lettering and labels to the spines. Joints are cracked and very tender. One board is held by the cords only. Loss to one backstrip. Internally, firmly bound. Institutional ink stamps throughout. Pages are bright, and quite clean, with just a few instances of foxing. Good Only. book.
Published by W. Baynes, Clarke et al, London, 1804
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
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Half Calf. Condition: Very Good. Fourth, Revised and Corrected. 4 VOLUME SET, portrait of Granger, bound in half calf with marbled boards, spines with gilt decoration and lettering, very good condition, W. Baynes, Clarke et al, London, 1804. * a very good set. The author gained notoriety by having his name - as in the grangerize - linked to the practice of extra-illustrating books with prints, engravings, etc. removed from other books. This set has not been grangerized.
Leather. Condition: Very Good. Various; W. Richardson (illustrator). The complete six volume set of this biographical history of England, written by James Granger, with 'extra-illustration' throughout each of the volumes. Fifth edition, published in 1815.Complete six volume set presented in a contemporary full straight grain morocco binding.Illustrated with frontispieces to each of the volumes as well as various illustrated plates, some by W. Richardson.This is a wonderfully informative history of England, told through the biographical descriptions of 'a great number of persons'. This fifth edition includes an extra four-hundred biographical lives, as well as 'an essay towards reducing our biography to system' and anecdotes.This work shows the process of 'extra-illustration', also referred to as 'Grangerising', in which drawings and prints are interleaved within the printed text. Historical figures mentioned include Henry II, Edward Courtney, Henry Booth, Richard Talbot, Samuel Clarke and many others.Volume I includes forty-six illustrated plates.Volume II includes eighty-one illustrated plates.Volume III includes seventy-four illustrated plates.Volume IV includes thirty-two illustrated plates.Volume V includes forty-two illustrated plates.Volume VI includes sixteen illustrated plates.James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergyman, biographer, and print collector, with other works including 'An Apology of the Brute Creation, or Abuse of Animals', and 'The NAture and Extent of Industry'.With an illustrated bookplate to the front paste down of all six volumes belonging to Horace Pym, or Horatio Noble Pym, (1844-1896), a solicitor, book collector, and editor of the private journal of Quaker writer Caroline Fox.Ink inscription to top of title page from prior owner Donna R. Cole.Collated, complete. Bound in a contemporary full straight grain morocco binding. Externally, very smart. Light rubbing to the extremities and the spine, particularly the head and tail of spine as well as along the joints. A few marks to boards, particularly Vol VI. Illustrated bookplate to front paste downs of all volumes. Newspaper clipping adhered to the front endpaper of Vol I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a few spots particularly to the first and last few pages of text. Offsetting to pages facing some of the illustrated plates. Very Good. book.