Augustine Birrell Introduction (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Firmly bound, brown cloth boards, brown leather spine. Scuffing on cover and spine. Marks on some pages. No jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 4.5 x 7.5"; 294 pages; red cloth boards with gilt lamb carrying a flag to front board, brown cloth spine, detached at back board, gilt title; top edge gilt, other edges uncut; otherwise good bright clean book.

Full Leather Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 1930 reprint. Macmillan's Illustrated Pocket Classics. Size 12mo, 365 pages. Burgundy full semi soft leather covers with gilt titles within frame to front cover and gilt titles and elaborate heavy gilt work to the spine, top page edge gilt, burgundy silk bookmark ribbon, title and frontis within a red border. Condition very good, corners rubbed, spine ends chipped, previous owner's bookplate to front end-paper else the contents are very clean. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Edmund J. Sullivan (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 254 p., clean and unmarked except for name of former owner on front end page decorated with silhouettes; mildly age-toned paper strong; frontis. ill. with tissue guard and many other ill.; brown boards with clear gilt lettering and decoration have light bumping at corners and slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine.…

hardback, 12mo, xvi,292pp, portrait frontis., decorarted endpapers, edges browned and scattered foxing, otherwise clean and tight, no inscriptions, green cloth, gilt-decorated spine, nice and bright, Very Good / no dustwrapper.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. From "The Golden Poets" series Edited by Oliphant Smeaton. Frontispiece Illustrated with a drawing of the elderly Browning, protected by tissue guard. Title Page Illustrated with Palazzo Rezzonico. Illustrated with 8 Colour Plates. Blue/Grey cloth cover with bright Gilt Lyre & Laurel design to front. Similar to spine with Gilt lettering. 286 Pages, 370g, 6 3/4" Tall. No inscriptions. Spine colour faded and has 4 very small dark spots. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDBACK orange cloth with cream spine, gilt lettering on spine and gilt embossed device on front, head, tail and corners lightly bumped covers lightly used and faded at edges, otherwise clean internally. Please contact me for further information or photographs if required.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. No date circa 1907. Green cloth with gilt decorations and title. Slight bump to corners. Gilt to top edge. Illustrated end papers. No ownership inscription. Frontis portrait plate of Lamb. 336 pages including. Clean and tight. Size: 3.75" By 5.5" Tall.

Hardback. First Thus Edition. Undated presumed first thus edition which was first published in this format in 1906 Hardback clothbound with decorative gilt tooling to cover and spine Top edge gilt to pages Portrait tissue guarded frontispiece and vignette to title page Additional eight colour illustrated plates Light shelf wear and rubbing Fadingdiscolouration to spine Gilt tooling still relatively bright Toning to endpapers Cracking to gutter Occasional foxing to pages throughout Overall very good condition xxxvii 286 pp. Frontispiece and vignette title by A. S. Hartrick, coloured illustrations by Edmun J. Sullivan (illustrator). book.…

xxii, 294 / xi, 254 pagestrimmed paper on u; both volumes with engraved frontispices under tissue-guards, many illustrations in the text and on plates. - Gilt-decorated and -titled brown half-morocco bindings over 5 raised bands (signed 'Douglas & Foulis[,] Edinburgh') with brown-cloth panels, leather corners and ocre-marbled endpapers, topedges gilt; 8vo.(ca. 19 x 11 x 4 cm; ca. 1 kg.). ~~~ [Endgültiger NACHSOMMER-SCHLUSSVERKAUF / Ultimate POST-SUMMERSALE: um über 30% reduzierter Preis bis Montag 05.10.2026 / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30% until Monday, October 05, 2026; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 48,-] --- 4th EDITION ('ESSAY. . . '; 1st: 1899) / FIRST EDITION ('LAST ESSAY. . .'); FIRST EDITIONS ILLUSTRATED THUS, LUXURIOUSLY HANDBOUND BY DOUGLAS & FOULIS. - Leather corners minimally rubbed, frontpanel of Vol. '1' slightly sunned; A BEAUTIFUL SET. …

First Large Paper Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; xxvii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes; Limited edition of 250 printing. "Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh"--colophon. Contents; Rivals / Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, (1751-1816). Subjects; Sullivan, Edmund Joseph. English drama 18th century. English comedy 18th century.English drama (Comedy). English drama 18th century. Great Britain Social life and customs ; Drama. Genres; Drama. Illustrated. still image. 1 Kg. …

First Large Paper Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; xxvii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes; Limited edition of 250 printing. "Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh"--colophon. Contents; Rivals / Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, (1751-1816). Subjects; Sullivan, Edmund Joseph. English drama 18th century. English comedy 18th century.English drama (Comedy). English drama 18th century. Great Britain Social life and customs ; Drama. Genres; Drama. Illustrated. still image. 1 Kg. …