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Offa's Dyke Books, LUDLOW, SALOP, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since November 10, 2004
London. James Nisbet and Co. 1851. Eleventh edition, 8vo., [i-xxvi],[1]-342pp., engraved frontispiece with tissue guard & engraved vignette title page, bookplate to front pastedown endpaper & bookseller's ticket, yellow chalked endpapers, original green cloth with decorative gilt spine and gilt crest to front board, small stain to each board, top & bottom of spine sl worn otherwise very good and bright. Mrs. Tonna (1790-1846) was very hostile to the Catholic Church and some of her publications are said to have been placed on the Index Expurgatorius. She died at Ramsgate on 12th July 1846. Seller Inventory # A102
Title: Derry; A Tale of the Revolution.
Binding: Hardcover
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Crown8vo, frontis, xvi, 317, 18 pp. Original dark brown cloth, lettered gilt and with a picture in black line on the upper cover. Four illustrations. Tanning of the free endpapers, name on ffep otherwise VG+ tight attractive edition. Seller Inventory # 416
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Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 5th or later Edition. Foolscap8vo, engraved frontispiece of Derry Cathedral, engraved title with vignette, xxvi, [27] - 368 p. Original green blind-ruled cloth, lettered and decorated gilt on the backstrip, Nisbet's gilt crest on the upper cover, cream endpapers. A small nick to the head of the slighly faded backstrip, lacks the front free endpapers otherwise a VG copy. Seller Inventory # 19506
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Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. original decorated cloth, spine bumped sunned and a trifle chipped, frontispiece and vignette titlepage, upper joint cracked with old sellotape mark to gutter, a nice copy. first published 1833; 368 pages. Seller Inventory # 12621
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Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Front. (1841), engr. title, printed title, final ad. leaf. Orig. red bead-grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine dec. & lettered in gilt; spine a little darkened. See Loeber T79; not in Wolff. An anti-Catholic novel based on the Siege of Derry, that took place following the Glorious Revolution in 1688. 'May Popery unmasked be the prelude to Popery destroyed.'. Seller Inventory # 82354
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Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Front. (1841), engr. title, printed title. Orig. green cloth, spine dec. & lettered in gilt; inner hinge repaired. Contemp. inscription mostly erased from leading f.e.p. v.g. See Loeber T79 for the first edition, 1833; not in Wolff. An anti-Catholic novel based on the Siege of Derry, that took place following the Glorious Revolution in 1688. 'May Popery unmasked be the prelude to Popery destroyed.'. Seller Inventory # 47182
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Seller: C L Hawley (PBFA), Skipton, YORKS, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Good copy. Hardback. xiv,317pp. Decorative cloth with gilt titles. Black and white frontis. By Charlotte Elizabeth (born Browne, then Phelan and later Tonna). English born Charlotte Elizabeth married an Irishman, and began her writing career in Dublin. She wrote extensively on women's rights as well as in the service of evangelical Protestant thought. Tonna wrote only under her Christian names as she wish to hide her income from her abusive then-husband, Phelan which prior to the Married Women's Property Act 1882 would have belonged to him. Prelims have been tipped back in. Blue cloth with gilt device to front and blind impressed decorative board to front, decorative gilt titles to spine is generally clean, but rather rubbed and scuffed, especially to spine ends and corners. Internal front hinge is split to front endpaper though binding remains tight with little movement. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good copy. Seller Inventory # 21704
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Seller: C L Hawley (PBFA), Skipton, YORKS, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Good+, sound copy. Hardback. xiv,317pp. Illustrated cloth with gilt titles. Black and white frontis and five further plates, mainly by Jules David. By Charlotte Elizabeth (born Browne, then Phelan and later Tonna). English born Charlotte Elizabeth married an Irishman, and began her writing career in Dublin. She wrote extensively on women's rights as well as in the service of evangelical Protestant thought. Tonna wrote only under her Christian names as she wish to hide her income from her abusive then-husband, Phelan which prior to the Married Women's Property Act 1882 would have belonged to him. Blue cloth with black illustration to front, printed gilt label to spine and gilt titles to front is very clean, though the gilt to the spine is faced and rubbed. Bumped to points. Internal front hinge is split to front endpaper though binding remains tight with little movement. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy. Seller Inventory # 21677
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