Blake W O Compiler (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volumes complete. !865 printing, NOT a modern reprint. Blind embossed black leather bindings with the spine titles and elaborate spine decorations gold-stamped. Very light edge wear to the bindings. Some light surface scuffing. We have treated the leather bindings with a professional book conservator's leather dressing to good effect. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. Foxing here and there. Marbled edges to the text blocks. Marbled end sheets and paste-downs. No name of previous owner. No musty odor. No water stains. No sun fading. 1008pp and 865pp respectively. The account of the American Civil War begins on page 603 of volume I and continues to the end of volume II.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo. Ornately blind stamped leather boards, recently professionally rebacked with new black leather spine with new gilt titles and decorations. Marbled edges and endpapers. xvi, 861 pp. Spine a little cocked. Rubbing and wear to edges, chafing to boards. Typical browning and spotting to interior. A few marginal damp stains.

Frontispiece and 11 plates. 866pp. Large thick 8vo. One of several edition, published by subscription, of this abolitionist history of slavery. This issue includes an additional chapter in the rear regarding John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Publisher's embossed morocco, marbled endpapers and edges, worn. Foxing Frontispiece and 11 plates. 866pp. Large thick 8vo.

The forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome. The African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States. Compiled from authentic materials. Pp. 832, frontispiece, plus 12 plates, one small text figure, appendix; thick med. 8vo; original blind embossed black leather boards, neatly rebacked with later black leather spine lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, edges of boards lightly rubbed; marbled edges; marbled endpapers, upper hinge starting, several early inked ownership markings on the outer leaves, plus very occasional inked marks to the text, a couple of marginal tears, quite foxed throughout, often heavily, occasional slight soiling; H. Miller, Columbus, Ohio, 1860. *First published in 1857.