Arthur Layard Editor (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Arthur Layard (illustrator). A pictorial board Hardcover, lavishly decorated in bright gold on burgundy boards with a nautical scene on the front board and coats of arms on the spine and back board. Ex. library. 444 rough cut pages, gilt edge on the top surface, index, illustrated with tissue guarded frontispiece and b/w drawings throughout. This book is in extraordinary condition, having had minimal handling. There is just a little very light edge and corner wear. You are unlikely to see another in this excellent condition. Contents clean, tight and bright. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 414 pages. some fading to cloth covers -edge wear-corner bruising.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Arthur Layard (illustrator). No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Title page printed in black and red and similar label on spine. The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundeville Kt Being his voyage and travel which treateth the way to Jerusalem and of the marvels of Ind with other islands and countries. Edited and profusely illustrated by Arthur Layard with a preface by John Cameron Grant. 414 pages. Charming illustrations; full-page, initials, tail-pieces and vignettes. Cloth covers rubbed but a very good copy.

Hardcover. Includes illustrations. xxi, 202 This also contains a Critical and Biographical Introduction by Jacques W. Redway. This is bound with Eothen or Traces of Travel brought Home from the East by ALexander William Kinglake. This also has a Critical and Biographical Introduction by Jacques W. Redway, 228 pages. From Wikipedia: "Jehan de Mandeville", translated as "Sir John Mandeville", is the name claimed by the compiler of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a book account of his supposed travels, which probably first appeared in Anglo-Norman French, and first circulated between 1357 and 1371. By aid of translations into many other languages it acquired extraordinary popularity. Despite the extremely unreliable and often fantastical nature of the travels it describes, it was used as a work of reference Christopher Columbus, for example, was heavily influenced by both this work and Marco Polo's earlier Il Milione. Also from Wikipedia: "Alexander William Kinglake (5 August 1809 2 January 1891) was an English travel writer and historian. He was born near Taunton, Somerset and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. [1] He was called to the Bar in 1837, and built up a thriving legal practice, which in 1856 he abandoned in order to devote himself to literature and public life. His first literary venture had been Eothen; or Traces of travel brought home from the East, (London: J. Ollivier, 1844), a very popular work of Eastern travel, apparently first published anonymously, in which he described a journey he made about ten years earlier in Syria, Palestine and Egypt, together with his Eton contemporary Lord Pollington. Elliot Warburton said it evoked "the East itself in vital actual reality" and it was instantly successful. However, his magnum opus was his Invasion of the Crimea, in 8 volumes, published from 1863 to 1887 by Blackwood, Edinburgh, one of the most effective works of its class. It has been accused of being too favourable to Lord Raglan, and unduly hostile to Napoleon III, for whom the author had an extreme aversion. The town of Kinglake in Victoria, Australia, and the adjacent national park are named after him. A Whig, Kinglake was elected at the 1857 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MP) for Bridgwater, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1852. He was returned at next two general elections, but the result of the 1868 general election in Bridgwater was voided on petition on 26 February 1869. No by-election was held, and after a Royal Commission found that there had extensive corruption, the town was disenfranchised in 1870." Good. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. One of the World's Greatest books series/Aldine edition.