Booth Rev James (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 2 pamphlets. Booth's book has 64 pp, illustrated throughout from b/w photographs, drawings and advertising material. Colgraves book has 33pp illustrated. Boths books in good order with the same previous owners bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. All pages appear clean and unmarked. Light foxing to top of text block. Bumping to board spine and nick to board edge.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO40174151: 1960. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Non coupé. 142 pages. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampons et annotations de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en page de titre. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A lovely six volume set of nineteenth century collections of epitaphs and epigrams. A fantastic six volume set of nineteenth century epitaphs and epigrams.An epitaph is a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone. An Epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement.In their original green and brown cloth bindings.Including:1878 Epitaphs of the Catacombs or Christian Inscriptions in Rome During the First Four CenturiesThe first edition of the work, written by Rev. J. Spencer Northcote. An account of the epitaphs of the catacombs of Rome, which are ancient, underground burial placesof which there are at least forty, some rediscovered since 1578, others even as late as the 1950s.1878 Antiente Epitaphes (From A.D. 1250 to A.D. 1800)The first edition of the work, written by Thomas F. Ravenshaw. Collected and set forth in chronological order. With a folding frontispiece.1897 English Epigrams and EpitaphsThe first edition of the work, selected by Aubrey Stewart. Illustrated with a frontispiece.[1876] Epitaphs: Quaint, Curious, and Elegant; With Remarks on the Obsequies of Various NationsCompiled and collated by Henry James Loaring. Undated, dated from University of Cambridge Libraries. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and engraved title page.1869 A Collection of Curious and Interesting EpitaphsCopied from the monument of distinguished and noted characters in the ancient church and burial grounds of Saint Pancras, Middlesex. The first edition of the work, written by Frederick Teague Cansick. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and three plates. Collated, complete.1868 Metrical Epitaphs, Ancient and ModernThe first edition of the work, edited by the Rev. John Booth. In publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, smart. Shelf wear to extremities. Large pencil inscription to front paste down of English Epigrams and Epitaphs, with age toning to endpapers. Light rubbing to joints and offsetting to endpapers of A Collection of Curious and Interesting Epitaphs. Small mark to rear board, bookplate to front paste down, with hinges very strained to Metrical Epitaphs, most significant to the front hinge. Internally, mostly firmly bound. Binding of Metrical Epitaphs is fragile, but in place. Pages are bright and clean with light spotting to Epitaphs of the Catacombs. Very Good. book.