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Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since May 18, 2007
A selection of essays by popular British essayists, in a lovely leather binding. Undated, dated using Copac. In a prize binding by Relfe Brothers Limited, London. Their binder's stamp is to the verso of front endpaper. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown, dated 1903, from Thetford Girls Grammer School. Compiled by Robert Cochrane. This work contains a variety of essays by popular authors such as Bacon, Thomas Fuller, Ben Jonson, William Cowper, Jonathan Swift, Richard Steele and more. In a full calf binding. With gilt stamping to the front board and to the spine. Externally, generally smart with light patches of rubbing to the joints and to the extremities. Marks to he boards. Small loss to the tail of spine due to rubbing. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown from Thetford Girls' Grammar School dated 1903. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned to edges with spots to the first and last few pages and the odd spot throughout. Very Good Indeed. Seller Inventory # LTH26-G-1
Title: The English Essayists A Comprehensive ...
Publisher: W P Nimmo, London; Edinburgh
Publication Date: 1880
Binding: Leather
Illustrator: None
Condition: Very Good Indeed
Book Type: book
Seller: The Book Exchange, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth Hardcover, light wear on spine. Owner's name and inscription dated 1879 on front endpapers. Not ex. library. 544 pages, index. A comprehensive selection from the works of the great essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin, with an Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical Notes. Compiled and arranged with tissue guarded frontispiece and other portraits. Contents, page edges tanned, light spotting on endpapers. Book. Seller Inventory # 024074
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Black "fake" leather, gilt. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1300g. Seller Inventory # kb650B.592
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No date Circa 1889. Original cloth boards with gilt titling on spine, 5 raised bands. Previous owner's name on ffep dated 1912. Frontis portrait. Illustrated title page. A few spots. viii, 536 pages. Size: 4to. Seller Inventory # 139880
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. Hardcover in quarter leather without dust jacket, top edge gilt, bright and clear spine gilt lettering and decoration, 536 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations; bumps and light to moderate wear to cover corners and spine ends, fore and bottom edges lightly foxed with traces of penetration to outer margins of some pages, previous owner's ink city/date and embossed stamp on first blank page, but very gently used, tight in binding although looseness developing, text pages otherwise very clean and unmarked. See also our listings in this series from William P. Nimmo: The Treasury of Modern Biography, and The British Letter Writers. Seller Inventory # 039207
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1891 edition. Seller Inventory # 104475
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request. Seller Inventory # mon0001558387
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Condition: New. Seller Inventory # I-9781172780556
Quantity: Over 20 available
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLING22Oct2018170125081
Quantity: Over 20 available
Seller: Gage Postal Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Fine leather bound hardback; portraits, viii + 536 pages. The book is soundly bound in blue prize calf with gilt decoration and marbled endpapers and page edges; there is a little light wear, and some slight fading. The pastedown has a prize plate an d an owner's bookplate. There is some very light tanning to the text and plates which are otherwise very clean and crisp. Seller Inventory # GEN8542
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: preigu, Osnabrück, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The English essayists | A comprehensive selection from the works of the great essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin | Robert Cochrane | Taschenbuch | Paperback | 568 S. | Englisch | 2017 | hansebooks | EAN 9783743658066 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. Seller Inventory # 108191057
Quantity: 5 available