Cornwall Leigh (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrations (illustrator). 3rd Edition. Covers clean, slight bumping to tips. Small bookplate belonging to a previous owner on front paste down. An inscription from grandparent to a child dated 1903 on front end paper.Internally clean.Stitching exposed between list of illustrations page and first page, but book still tight.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Softback. Large 8vo. 31 + (1)pp. Tissue guarded 3 section fold out colour frontis + 1 other colour plate, Publisher's pale paper wrappers, black lettering on front. Neat ink on top edgeof front cover " With S P Earwalker's kind regards June 1888 ". Covers : 2cm loss top/bottom of spine, rubs corners, browning around edges. Contents : faint browning else clean & tight. Clean & complete copy.VG-/VG cover & contents.

First edition 1812 printed by J. Dennett, Leather Lane, London, hard back binding in half chestnut brown calf, black and gilt title label to the spine with tooled gilt cross lines, original pink, green and black marble paper covered boards and end papers. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains [viii] 1-178 Memoirs; 179-291 Appendix followed by List of Subscribers. From the private library of Andrew Leigh, General Manager of The Old Vic, London, being passed down through the family with smart bookplate inside the front cover 'Henry James Leigh'. In Very Good clean and bright condition with only very slight dustiness to text block edges. Philip Melvill served in India, as a lieutenant in the 73rd regiment in the war against Hyder Ali's forces. In 1780, he was wounded, captured and held prisoner for four years under bad conditions, on his release, he was promoted to Captain. However, he was still very ill and stayed with his brother in Bengal until 1786, when he was much recovered. On his return to England in 1797, he was appointed the commander of an invalid company based on Guernsey, where he married Miss Elizabeth Dobree. He set up a school for the children of soldiers in his command and was then appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Pendennis Castle and served until 1811. In 1807, he founded the Falmouth Misericordia Society "for the relief of poor strangers and distressed persons of the town". He also helped found a Church Girls' School in 1802 and a Boys' School in 1805, and formed the Pendennis Volunteer Artillery, a local militia. Member of the P.B.F.A. CORNWALL (Kernow).

Hardcover (Full Leather). Condition: Very Good. W. & E. Finden (illustrator). A beautiful book containing 61 extremely fine engravings The text was written to accompany the images "expressly for the work" by a number of eminent hands. Full green leather with elaborate gilt decoration. The green has softened and toned with age and there are one or two bumps and rubs but this book presents as a very impressive and lovely thing. Size: Folio. Illustrator: W. & E. Finden. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 55336.