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Published by Folio Society, 1988
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Folio Society
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.05.
Published by Folio Society, 1988
Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Published by Folio
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photograph available on request.
Condition: As New. . From the library of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his custom bookplate on front pastedown. Slipcase Very Good. (Folio society, British history, British literature, short story collection, anthology, biographies, folklore, superstition).
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1975
Seller: J. W. Mah, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. (UK) 9th printing 1996. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published; no slipcase. Cloth with green cloth spine gold title block, 324pp, B&W portraits of the people described. Aubrey is perhaps best known as the author of the Brief Lives, his collection of short biographical pieces. (2.2 JM LVR 201/b5 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1975
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Slip Case. First Edition First Printing Thus. Near fine book in clean, fresh oatmeal coarse weave cloth covers with ; bright gilt titles to brown panel on the spine; pattern of open rectangles in gilt and brown to front and spine. Internally near mint and free of inscriptions; printed at BAS printers, Wallop; very well illustrated; light orange end papers. The lightly marbled russet slip case is very good++.
Published by Folio Society, London, 1975
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good book in textured oatmeal covers in orange slipcase. Book has a couple of pale grubby marks to spine, title in gilt on slight worn brown background. Internally mint with no marks. Slipcase has some wear to joints and light sunning to the top.
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1976
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Brief Lives A Selection Based Upon Existing Contemporary Portraits Edited By Richard Barber. Folio Second Impression 1976. Very good slipcase. Decorated cloth boards with bright gilt titling. Frontis plate. 325 pages clean and tight. Size: 6.25" By 10" Tall.
Published by Folio Society
Seller: West Coast Bookseller, Moorpark, CA, U.S.A.
Book
hardcover. Condition: New.
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1975
ISBN 10: 1199829854ISBN 13: 9781199829856
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. A selection based upon existing contemporary portraits.
Published by The Folio Society Limited, London, 1975
Seller: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. BEAUTIFUL: NEW Fist Folio Society Edition (Orig. 1975) Fifth Impression, Reissued 1988: NEW gray paper-over-boards gondola-front slipcase, EXQUISTE cover w/ British-green silk-finish linen wrapping spine & extending 1.00" onto front & rear panels SUMPTUOUSLY covered in library-durable natural wheat-tan linen w/ gilt-stamped titles displayed inside double-rule-gilt-bordered black title "boxes" on front panel & spine, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exterior, BEAUTIFUL British-green card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior lithographically printed at The Bath Press (Avon) w/ handsome LUCIDITY in 11-point (spaced one-point) Monotype Bembo on SUPERB unblemished "Archive Long Life" paper * 6.18" x 9.88" x 1.28 / 6.18" x 10.18" x 1.28 (slip-cased), 0.90 kg / 1.04 kg (slip-cased), 326 pp * ABOUT JOHN AUBREY: John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 - 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher & writer, perhaps best known as the author of "Brief Lives", his collection of short biographical pieces. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic & other field monuments in southern England, & who is particularly noted for his systematic examination of the Avebury henge monument. The Aubrey holes at Stonehenge are named after him, although there is considerable doubt as to whether the holes that he observed are those that currently bear the name. He was also a pioneer folklorist, collecting together a miscellany of material on customs, traditions & beliefs under the title "Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme". He set out to compile county histories of both Wiltshire & Surrey, although both projects remained unfinished. His "Interpretation of Villare Anglicanum" (also unfinished) was the first attempt to compile a full-length study of English place-names. He had wider interests in applied mathematics & astronomy, & was friendly w/ many of the greatest scientists of the day. For much of the 19th & 20th centuries, thanks largely to the popularity of "Brief Lives", Aubrey was regarded as little more than an entertaining but quirky, eccentric & credulous gossip. Only in the 1970s did the full breadth & innovation of his scholarship begin to be more widely appreciated. He published little in his lifetime, & many of his most important manuscripts (for the most part preserved in the Bodleian Library) remain unpublished, or published only in partial form. -Wikipedia, where rich additional details may be found. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $12.00 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.
Published by The Folio Society (1976)., London, 1976
Seller: Magic Carpet Books, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Tan cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. 324 pages. Portraits. No slipcase. A clean, attractive copy. "John Aubrey's Brief Lives is one of the strangest books -- if indeed this collection of notes, excerpts, gossip and dry facts can be called a book -- to have achieved literary fame. Their author was equally strange, in his way: a gentleman with the learned turn of mind, yet little formal education, a lover of books and manuscripts, yet almost penniless, a would-be scholar who loved worldly company as much as that of serious men, who spent the last twenty years of his life living in other people's houses, on the run from his creditors.".
Published by THE FOLIO SOCIETY, LONDON, 1997
Seller: Tobo Books, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. VERY GOOD condition, slightly marked boards in a lightly marked slipcase. 10th printing of this edition.
Published by The Folio Society, 1996
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1996 edition. Slip case has some bumps, wear, light marks and scratches. Minor faint wear at parts of hard board/spine. Text excellent and appears unread.
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1976
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Second Folio Impression. 324pp, notes, bw ills. Or decorative cloth in card slipcase. Spine a little flecked and worn. Slipcase faded and stained. Folio Society edition of Aubrey's Brief Lives featuring notes, excerpts, gossip and dry facts of some 90 persons of interest. Size: 8vo.
Condition: Good. Good condition. Slipcase Good. From the collection of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his custom bookplate on front endpage. (Great Britain, Folklore, Historic Sites).
Published by Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 1982
ISBN 10: 0851152066ISBN 13: 9780851152066
Book
Paperback. John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-centuryEngland stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of theperiod. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire; at theage of 26 he inherited a family estate encumbered with debt, andfinally went bankrupt in the 1670s. From then on he led a sociable,rootless existence at the houses of friends - from Oxford and theMiddle Temple -pursuing the antiquarian studies which hadalwaysobsessed him. At his death in 1697 he left a mass of notes andmanuscripts, among them the material for Brief Lives. He nevermanaged to put even a single life into logical order; all we have arethe raw materials, scribbled down -`tumultuously as they occurred to mythoughts'. With this full, modern English edition, whichreproduces Aubrey's words as closely as possible, Richard Barberintroduces us to Aubrey and his world, tells how theLives cameinto being and enables many new readers to enjoy this eccentricmasterpiece. Very good condition. Light shelf-scuffing on cover.
Published by The Folio Society, 1994
Seller: Armadillo Alley Books, Carrollton, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Eighth printing. The book is Like New. Tight and square with solid hinges and bindings, good tips, and clean dark grey and yellow boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white portraits throughout. Edited by Richard Barber. The slipcase is Near Fine with faint shelf wear. 324 pages. 6½ x 10" tall. The idea behind this collection of some of Aubrey?s ?Brief Lives? essays was to ?Include only those lives for which a reasonably authentic contemporary portrait could be found ? ?Brief Lives? is one of the strangest books ? if indeed this collection of notes, excerpts, gossip and dry facts can be called a book ? to have achieved literary fame,? writes Richard Barber, who goes on to write that ?Their author was equally strange.?.
Published by Boydell Pr, 2004
ISBN 10: 1843831120ISBN 13: 9781843831129
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 332 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.