Binding Palmer (4 results)

Hard Back 06-19-2023 CP. Condition: Good Clean Cond. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Decorative Binding (illustrator). Hardback : hard cover edition in good plus condition, a typical used book with slight wear to edges and spine. Some minor bumping or scuffs. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself. Or would make an ideal gift for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Book.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Used: Very Good. Libro usato proveniente da collezione privata. La copertina riporta usuali segni del tempo. Le pagine potrebbero risultare imbrunite. Consegna in 24/48 h. 55 d2.

Selection of verse from Longfellow, Tennyson, Coleridge, etc. nicely illustrated and beautifully bound. 8vo, 596 pp. Vignette engravings and facsimile manuscripts throughout, title page printed in blue and black. Full brown, blind decorated morocco, spine lettered and dentelles in gilt, g.e., marbled endpapers. Signed, "By Wm. Smith, New York" on rear dentelle. Some rubbing to boards, mainly edges and along joints. Some discoloration at head of spine. Light damp staining to top edge of ffep, fly leaf, and frontis (Longfellow facs. manuscript), else clean internally First edition thus, New Edition, Revised and Enlarged.

[13 x 10 inches] 4to. [6] ff. Calligraphic script on vellum. Original elaborate presentation-style binding in full crimson crushed morocco, richly tooled with gilt and leather onlays of black morocco, a large set of initials for the owner, B.A. for Benjamin Armitage, mounted dark green watered silk endsheets, the binding is signed by Palmer & Howe, Manchester. An elegant commemorative album from the Pendleton Liberal Club, honoring the services rendered by Benjamin Armitage, as Club Treasurer, Vice-President and President, and Representative in Parliament for the Club, 1880-86 "to promote reforms lending to improve the condition of the people and to remove the evils from which they suffer." Signed Goodman Charles Mandleberg, President â" Henry Roper, Vice-President â" J. Grant, Treasurer â" A. Cleworth, Hon. Secretary â" Jonathan Shaw, James Pearson, H. Roper Junr., Thomas Murdock, A. E. Barlow, Joshua Johnson, Henry Dixon, G. Birch, etc. Following a full leaf of 20 original signatures of Club Committee members, there are some 240 names of the members, all handsomely written in fine calligraphic script. / The Pendleton Liberal Club began its charter in 1873/74. "The institution is intended to subserve two important ends, viz the promulgation of political opinions and social improvement. All the appliances of a first-class club will be placed within the reach of the working classes, and no restrictions will be placed upon the members other than those which obtain in the leading metropolitan political clubs." â" Architects of Greater Manchester, 1800-1940. / The elaborate hand-bound volume in full morocco, was bound by the Manchester, England, binder, Palmer & Howe, a prominent 19th-century publisher, bookseller, and lithographer, active during the late 1800s. They were known for producing high-quality books, prints, and industrial, technical, and local history works. / Benjamin Armitage (1823-1899), was an English industrialist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1886. / NOTE: Accompanying the document is a printed copy of a letter addressed to Benjamin Armitage, relating to his decision not to be a candidate for Parliament, 1895. [3 pages; foxed]. ALSO: The obituary of Armitage, as written in the Manchester Evening News, Tuesday, December 5, 1899. [1 column].