Edited Simon Eliot (9 results)

Glossy Pictorial Card. Condition: Very Good ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Pictorial Illustrations Throughout. (illustrator). Reprint edition. VOLUME 2. 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". Inscribed By a Previous Owner. TRADE PAPERBACK.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. This book exploits this attractive charactersitic by including a considerable quantity of material from such figures as Gibbon, Hume, Adam Smith, Johnson, Voltaire, Buffon, Diderot and D'Alembert. To give the reader an idea of the intellectual contect in which these writers worked, the major texts are backed up by a wealth of additional material (much of it no longer easily available) which reflects the wide range of issues and styles characteristic of the eighteenth century. Although not rigidly sub-divided into sections the excerpts have been selected to illustrate certain major themes: the concept of the 'classic' in ;literature; religion and the debate about Providence; politial and economic matters; the Roman Empire and its legacy; architecture, interior decoration and painting; systematic knowledge and science; the problem of patronage. To make this anthology even more accessible each excerpt has its own introduction and is accompanied, where necessary, by explanatory footnotes. 345 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. This book exploits this attractive charactersitic by including a considerable quantity of material from such figures as Gibbon, Hume, Adam Smith, Johnson, Voltaire, Buffon, Diderot and D'Alembert. To give the reader an idea of the intellectual contect in which these writers worked, the major texts are backed up by a wealth of additional material (much of it no longer easily available) which reflects the wide range of issues and styles characteristic of the eighteenth century. Although not rigidly sub-divided into sections the excerpts have been selected to illustrate certain major themes: the concept of the 'classic' in ;literature; religion and the debate about Providence; politial and economic matters; the Roman Empire and its legacy; architecture, interior decoration and painting; systematic knowledge and science; the problem of patronage. To make this anthology even more accessible each excerpt has its own introduction and is accompanied, where necessary, by explanatory footnotes. 345 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. This book exploits this attractive charactersitic by including a considerable quantity of material from such figures as Gibbon, Hume, Adam Smith, Johnson, Voltaire, Buffon, Diderot and D'Alembert. To give the reader an idea of the intellectual contect in which these writers worked, the major texts are backed up by a wealth of additional material (much of it no longer easily available) which reflects the wide range of issues and styles characteristic of the eighteenth century. Although not rigidly sub-divided into sections the excerpts have been selected to illustrate certain major themes: the concept of the 'classic' in ;literature; religion and the debate about Providence; politial and economic matters; the Roman Empire and its legacy; architecture, interior decoration and painting; systematic knowledge and science; the problem of patronage. To make this anthology even more accessible each excerpt has its own introduction and is accompanied, where necessary, by explanatory footnotes. 345 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. This book exploits this attractive charactersitic by including a considerable quantity of material from such figures as Gibbon, Hume, Adam Smith, Johnson, Voltaire, Buffon, Diderot and D'Alembert. To give the reader an idea of the intellectual contect in which these writers worked, the major texts are backed up by a wealth of additional material (much of it no longer easily available) which reflects the wide range of issues and styles characteristic of the eighteenth century. Although not rigidly sub-divided into sections the excerpts have been selected to illustrate certain major themes: the concept of the 'classic' in ;literature; religion and the debate about Providence; politial and economic matters; the Roman Empire and its legacy; architecture, interior decoration and painting; systematic knowledge and science; the problem of patronage. To make this anthology even more accessible each excerpt has its own introduction and is accompanied, where necessary, by explanatory footnotes. 345 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Glossy Pictorial Card. Condition: Very Good ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Reprint edition. VOLUME 1. 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. TRADE PAPERBACK.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Spine not creased. 245 x 170 mm. xvi, 600 pp. Reprint. This collection first published in 2007. Book.

2007, xix,444pp. Illustrated. Cloth, with dust jacket. In very good condition. Pakketzending.

Volumes 1 - 4. All with unclipped dustwrappers in very good condition with the exception of volume IV which has a closed tear to the bottom of the front cover. This item is heavy and may require extra shipping costs.