Canning James Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Thus. First thus, first impression. xviii, 366pp, with three sections of plate illustrations. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo. Cloth just a little pushed in at spine heel. A previous owner's name neatly on the front free endpaper. A little toning to text block edges and pages else neat. clean and tight. In its original glossy dust wrapper, not price clipped, just a little shelf worn. Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.

Green Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). Pictorial Illustrations Throughout. (illustrator). First is the first edition of this edition. This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Large paperback reprint, 1996, in overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 256 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 27 through July 21, 2001. Features an introduction and acknowledgements by editor Catherine de Zegher, and texts by Susan M. Canning, Marcel De Maeyer, and Herwig Todts. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations, a chronology by Xavier Tricot, a bibliography, and a checklist. A near fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued.

Both letters good, on lightly aged paper. Both items concern Canning's article on 'International Relations' in the October 1877 issue of 'The Nineteenth Century'. Letter One (12mo, 4 pages, bifolium with mourning border). Knowles hopes Canning has received the proof of the article from the publishers Spottiswoodes. A judicious bit of sycophancy follows. 'Please allow me to repeat how very greatly I am obliged to your lordship for this essay which seems to me to be as readable as it is wise and interesting - The concluding passages of it especially if you will permit me to say so - are precisely what should proceed from such a high standard of Patriotism as you have yourself set up'. Knowles then suggests a passage 'which might as well be omitted', giving his reasons. Letter Two (12mo, 3 pp): Enclosing a cheque (not present) for thirty guineas in payment for the article. Knowles feels that Canning's 'admirable paper' has placed him under 'great obligation': 'The article has been extracted from and referred to in the most respectful & complimentary manner by many of the best & highest journals & cannot fail to do good in various ways'. Knowles considers it 'a contribution to the Subject which is most valuable & exhaustive as to the principles which should favour its application'. He now turns his 'eyes towards your promised paper upon Spain'. While his wife was staying at St Leonards he would have liked to have called on Canning at Frant, 'as you so kindly gave me leave to do - but unfortunately was so tied & bound by work in London that I could only run to & fro' by the quickest & non-stopping trains - & hence, for the time at any rate, lost my opportunity'.