Blake Rev John (16 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good -. Boston Stereotype Edition. Frontis + 27 engraved plates with foxing. Original black spine label, intermittent small dog ears, previous owner's name on front flyleaf, rubbing at extremities, contents complete. PayPal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. The Farmer's Every-day Book; or, sketches of social life in the country: with the popular elements of practical and theoretical agriculture, and twelve hundred laconics and apothegms relating to ethics, religion, and general literature; also five hundred receipts on hygeian, domestic, and rural economy. By the Rev. John L. Blake. 1856. Published by Miller, Orton & Mulligan, New York and Auburn. "SPINE in poor condition, tape repair, front and back covers somewhat loose, inside some foxing spots, clean and tight otherwise".…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Cracked front inner hinge holding. Pages heavily foxed. Previous owner's stamp, inscription, & bookplate to end papers, otherwise good.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Thick octavo. iv, 960pp. Illustrated with ten colored plates, which includes a color frontispiece and also an engraved pictorial half-title page. Names of E.A. Rogers of New Orleans, Mary Louise Rogers of California, and a third individual on the second front flyleaf with births and deaths of their relatives recorded on the rear free endpaper. Quarter calf diced-cloth boards with a pinkish hue and gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Boards and spine are worn particularly along the edges, fading and soiling to the boards, a torn piece of paper affixed to the pastedown, endpapers soiled, and foxing throughout, good or better with the hinges remaining tight and sound.…

Illustrated by four engraved plates (at rear). First edition. Full leather. 12mo. pp. 372. Index. Good. Old toned dampstains on several pages, hinges and joints sound. Sadly missing the six color lithographs (4 rear engravings present), merit as text reseach: conversations between Emily, Caroline and Mrs. B. Reverend Blake was a prolific writer with intersts in American history (and Indians), astronomy, oceanography, school readers, earth science, chemistry, anthropology/sociology, farming, natural philosophy, biography and geography as well as religion. He was also founder of the Ladies' Magazine (edited by Sarah Josepha Hale 1827-36). American Imprints 2390 [later reprinted in 2012].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sixth Edition. This is a VG hardcover 1846 sixth edition copy in a 960 page maroon tooled and gold embossed leather binding. marbled end papers and edges. The kind of spine gilt job that you see on an English King's book. With frontispiece etching of Hell Gate and four color flower plates, Amaranth, Crocus, Rose, and Sunflower. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, extra for airmail or international shipping. Photos on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. .with the Popular Elements of practical and theoretical agriculturs and .also.; Full black leather, gilt spine title & vignette, full blind decoration to boards, marbled endpapers/pastedown, frontis illustration, & several full page illustrations in the text; A good+ copy with modest tide mark in the margin fore & aft, & occasional foxing & toning; 654 pages + 1 leaf of publisher advertisement. Size: 5.75"x9".…

Quarter Bound Leather. Condition: VG. First Edition. NICE COLLECTABLE COPY.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some water damage to pages, however, binding in surprisingly good condition. No loose pages, all in one piece. Noticeable shelf-wear and damage to edges.

Condition: Good. Frontispiece by William Blake. Copy belonged to Blake collector William Stirling of Leir, with his Ex libris and blind embossed emblem to rear board. Tree calf and foil embossed original boards, sensitively rebacked. William Blake (illustrator).

Large 8vo in 4s (approx. 10¼" x 6½"), pp. [6], 960; alphabetical text in double column; engraved oval frontispiece portrait of George Washington, and 22 lithographs by Pendleton of notable American architecture; contemporary quarter diced russia over marbled boards; boards worn, neatly rebacked with old spine laid down; internally clean and the binding remains sound. Early owner's ownership signature on two flyleaves and recto of the frontispiece. Originally published in monthly parts beginning in 1832 (of which no copies in OCLC), this is the first book edition. Among the buildings represented are City Hall, Augusta, Georgia; Columbia College; the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Philadelphia; Mount Auburn Cemetery; Andover Theological Seminary; Mount Vernon; the Arcade in Providence; Kenyon College; Dartmouth College; the Capitol of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg; Yale College and State House; The White House, State House in Boston, and City Hall in New York, among others. That six of the nine records in OCLC are for individual plates suggests that this was a book often broken up for the lithographs. OCLC locates a total of only 7 copies: Yale, Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public, Harvard, Lehigh, Houston, and the University of Edinburgh. Not noted in Walsh, Anglo-American General Encyclopedias. Not in the Arents Collection of Books in Parts. American Imprints 23440; Sabin 5782.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1854 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 466 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 466.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1852 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 479 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 479.…