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Published by W. B. Thorsen, Chicago, Illinois, 1966
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: New. NOT a library discard; Rigby Graham; Clarence Rowe; (illustrator). First Edition. Chicago, Illinois: W. B. Thorsen, 1966. New and unread copy of the FIRST EDITION. NO owner's name or address label. Very mild age toning. This copy is from the publisher's surplus inventory which we acquired along with the magazine's archives -- now housed at the John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Vol. XVI #9, May 1966. Jeff C. Dykes' "Tentative Bibliographic Check Lists of Western Illustrators #27" describes 32 works containing Clarence Rowe illustrations. Has Roderick Cave's "Printing at the Brewhouse Press" with several full page plates by Rigby Graham. Wayde Chrismer appraises Civil War Centennial literature. Charles Heartman's American Book Collector lasted 36 issues before publication ceased in 1935. In 1950, William B. Thorsen began a new magazine called The Amateur Book Collector. However, he soon received permission from Heartman's widow to change the name to American Book Collector. There were 233 issues published before its demise in 1976. A third incarnation of the American Book Collector, unrelated to the others, appeared in 54 issues between 1980 and 1987. . First Edition. Softcover. New. Illus. by NOT a library discard; Rigby Graham; Clarence Rowe; Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Published by Church Publishing, 2022
ISBN 10: 1640655530ISBN 13: 9781640655539
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Condition: New.
Published by The National Computing Centre Limited, 1972
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Hard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Minus. Dust jacket edgeworn, bumped and creased in places, head of spine bumped and creased, library sticker to foot of spine, boards clean, ghost sticker marks to foot of boards, library markings to fep, light spotting to closed edges and to endpapers, pp clean and unmarked, binding sound. Size: 8vo. Ex Academic Library.
Published by Printed for Jacob Tonson, London, 1717
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Orig. calf boards, new calf spine w/ black leather spine label. Gilt palm borders, panels, title and decoration to spine, blind medallions to center of boards. Inner edges blind dentelle, with gilt rule and floral corners. A.E.G. Brown ribbon marker. [6], xx, [4], 548 pp. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut intials. Full-page engraved dedicatory portrait of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales [Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, wife of King George II], by George Vertue after Godfrey Kneller. [18] total full-page richly adorned engraved illustrations depicting subjects from several different legends. Each illustration is dedicated to a noblewoman or other woman of society, with her coat of arms in the lower margin, respectively: Dutchess of Kingston; Dutchess of Roxburghe; Dutchess of Newcastle; Countess of Hartford; Countess of Warwick; Princess Anne; Lady Cowper; Dutchess of Rutland; Countess of Lincoln; Viscountess Scudamore; Viscountess Townshend; Mrs. Walpole (wife of Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford); Mrs. Margaret Pelham (daughter of Baron Pelham of Laughton); Countess of Burlington; Lady Juliana Boyle; Dutchess of St. Albans. Woodcut headpieces and ornamental initials Recently professionally sympathetically rebacked with new spine laid down. Staining and scuffing to leather. Damp staining to upper corner of engraved portrait of Caroline. Brown and grey spotting to pp. 5-9. "On July 4, 1717, Jacob Tonson the Elder issued Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands, the first of two luxuriously printed books of verse which were to mark the end of his printing career. This handsome folio volume was a complete English translation of Ovid's greatest poem, in which sections or episodes of widely varying length were rendered into heroic couples by eighteen separate translators." [David Hopkins, The Review of English Studies, 1988]. ESTC T108889.