A Parishioner (6 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. CLEAN!! No marks. Might as well be new. Appears unread.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. With usual stamps and markings, In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,100grams, ISBN.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good - See Description. Reprint. No stated date c1890s. Reprint, possibly first thus. [iv], 113pp. plus a 1-page advertisement, frontispiece and 2 other full-page illustrations. The author of this humorous satirical poem is not given in this edition, but we understand that the first edition of 1875, published by Samuel Tinsley, gave it as 'A.B. Wildered'. It describes the progress and changes made by a new vicar in the fictional town of Slumbertown. It is divided into the following parts: Our New Vicar, The Restoration of the Church, Choral Service, High Celebration, Of Various Ceremonies, Confession, Fasting, Daily Service and Saints' Days, Corporate Re-Union, and Rome. The present edition includes a supplementary poem entitled The Unholy Cross, by a Graduate of the University of Cambridge. The book is bound in the contemporary purple-brown cloth covered boards with gold titling on the front board. The book has fairly recently been re-backed and re-cased, and as a result is now tight and secure. The boards has some shelf wear with light soiling and the spine and top and fore edges of the rear board are faded. There is lighter fading to the spine, top and fore edges of the front board. The spine ends are lightly bumped with wear and a little damage to the cloth. The contents are tight and clean with some foxing to the last few pages and the book has new grey endpapers. There is no inscription.…

Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 103. First published in 1822 as "A MEMOIR OF HAWARDEN PARISH, FLINTSHIRE, CONTAINING SHORT INTRODUCTORY NOTICES OF THE PRINCE OF NORTH WALES. by "A Parishioner", this limited edition published in 1990, (ii), vi, 194pp, 5pp list of subscribers to the 1990 edition, illustrated with a folding black & white map and plan, vignettes at the start of chapters and decoration at the end, ink name and address to front free endpaper, red cloth, gilt spine lettering, printed paper dust jacket, spine tanned, some marks to covers and wear to edges. Size: 8.5 x 5.25 Inches. Local History.…

Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG, 1st ed, 1822, 1 map. 19 illustration + 1 tipped in folding plate. In modern quarter calf, with worn contemporary marbled boards, corners and edges a little bumped and worn. Spine, gilt tooling, titles in gilt to green calfr label. Internally, new endpapers, folding map frontis present, 8vo, [3], (iv-vi), [1], 2-194 pp, 1 map, 19 illustrations (to include vignettes, head and tail pieces), + 1 additional folding plate (probably tipped in at a later stage), text block edges uncut, a few minor chips, light sporadic soiling and browning, occasional contemporary note, the map, drawn by J Davies is dated 1822. The author was the Headmaster at the Hawarden Grammar School. Very Rare. Title continues: Containing short introductory notices of the Princes of Wales; so far as to Connect, and Elucidate, Distant and Obscure Events. DAVIES J (illustrator). …

Bound in shaken green decorative cloth. Endpapers inscribed . Text, cracks between gathers, a little light foxing. Anonymous, a satirical poem. [6] + 103.