Ferrier Professor (33 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Sixth volume only. Original blind-embossed brown cloth binding with amateur stitched repairs on both boards and spine. Gilt lettering on spine is much faded, tips are exposed, spine is damaged at top and bottom. Brown glazed pastedowns are split at hinges, and ownership information in pencil is unreadable on flyleaf. Interior pages are tanned and lightly spotted, but free of marginalia. Edited by Wilson's son-in-law, James Frederick Ferrier. John Wilson FRSE (1785-1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, and a professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University from 1820-1851. Hardcover, acceptable condition. 557 pages, 12mo.

Hardcover. The cover is faded and worn, and the spine is visible on the inside; Ex-Library; Vol. 2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 428 pages Good cover, though still intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The cover is faded and worn; Ex-Library; Vol. 2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 433 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good edge. The cover is faded and worn, and the inside page is cut along the; Ex-Library; Vol. 1; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 + 16 pages.

Condition: Fine. General wear to boards with gilt design. Light toning to pages with some spotting.

Condition: Fine. General wear to boards with gilt design. Light toning to pages with some spotting.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good-. First Edition. 8vo. 384pp. Volume I only. Brown embosssed cloth, gilt lettering. spine sunned, rubbed and bumped, cloth torn at top of spine, corners bumped, front hinge tender. "The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh, Edited by his Son-in-Law, Professor Ferrier". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are a little worn. The spine has faded somewhat, and is a little frayed at both the top and bottom. Past owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. The odd bit of pencil marginalia and spotting throughout. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Publisher Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1876. A new edition edited by his son in law, Professor Ferrier. Volume IV of four volumes. Good condition, brown boards with blind tooling, gilt lettering to spine. Moderate shelf wear, scuffing and fraying. Dark brown endpapers. Attractive ex libris bookplate of Archibald Buttar. Frontispiece with tissue guard is an engraving of the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Publisher Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1876. A new edition edited by his son in law, Professor Ferrier. Volume III of four volumes. Good condition, brown boards with blind tooling, gilt lettering to spine. Moderate shelf wear, scuffing and fraying. Dark brown endpapers. Attractive ex libris bookplate of Archibald Buttar. Frontispiece with tissue guard is an engraving of the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Publisher - William Blackwood and sons, Edinburgh and London, 1876. A new edition edited by his son in law, Professor Ferrier. VOLUME 1 of four volumes. Good condition, brown boards with blind tooling, gilt lettering to spine. Moderate shelf wear, scuffing and fraying. Dark brown endpapers, front hinge loose. Attractive ex libris bookplate of Archibald Buttar. Frontispiece with tissue guard is an engraving of the author. Solid binding, 384pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher - William Blackwood and sons, Edinburgh and London, 1876. Vol. 2 of 4 volumes. Very good condition, brown boards with blind tooling to front and back boards and spine, gilt lettering to spine, corners and spine tips bumped and frayed. Dark brown endpapers. Attractive ex libris bookplate of Archibald Buttar to front paste down.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1855. Vol I Hardcover gilt titles to worn spine and embossed dark maroon cloth xxviii 384 pp, ex libris and tan spots to fep with tanning to extreme page edges but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD ++. Handsomely bound in a Nineteenth Century binding by Andy Grieve of Edinburgh, in three quarter leather and marbled paper, raised bands on gilt and blind stamped decorative spines, with all eight green and red leather spine labels intact (no chips), bindings and hinges tight. Small bookplate for Robert J. Hayhurst, purveyor of retail pharmacies based in Nelson, Lancashire. He was a collector of Naval History and 18th Century literature in fine bindings. There is also a label of entwined initials, unidentified. Lacking half title pages. xxviii, 384pp; xiv, 428pp; xiii, [1], 382pp; xi, [1], 368pp. SCOTTISH LITERATURE.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. 'A New Edition'. Dark blind-stamped cloth binding. Vol.1: engr.f/piece of Wilson+xxviii (inc.Preface by 'J.F.F.' - presumably Ferrier), no tissue-guard +384, t.p. of this vol.undated & does not credit Ferrier; Vol.2: engr. f/piece (John Gibson Lockart) w.tissue -guard+xiv+428; Vol.3:engr. f/piece (James Hogg, 'The Ettrick Shepherd') w. tissue-guard+xiii+382; Vol.4: engr. f/piece (Thomas De Quincey) w. tissue-guard+xi+368. 2 early prev.owners' sigs. top fr. fly leaves, one in ink early & pencilled through, the other R.J.Cooter's in pencil dated 1974; otherwise all internally clean & unmarked, fr.gutter Vol.3 cracked but tight, otherwise all undamaged with dark brown graphite endpapers, tissue-guards browned. Covers clean & quite bright with only v.minimal rubbing to sp.ends and some outer corners. An excellent set of this now scarce work reprinting Wilson's many contributions in humourous dialogue form to Blackwoods Magazine 1822-1835. One 1868 ed. listed at time of cataloguing apparently without Ferrier's Preface but also described a 'A New Edition'. Allow for additional postage especially outside UK.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 564 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Dark green blind decorated cloth lettered in gold on spines. Published in 1863 (1-2) and 1864 (3-4). Books are generally in nice conditon and unmarked spines present very well. Minor spotting to text edges. and slight bleach spotting to covers. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (GB 2020 £8) Packed weight 2200g.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume II - Willam Blackwood edition on faded burgundy cloth.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. [1865-1868] 12 volumes-set. Each volume with two tile-pages, one for the set "Works of.", one for each volume with a different date. Brown half calf with marbled boards and end pages; marbled edges. Five raised bands on each volume with lettering in gilt on red and black leather labels and fish-scale decorated gilt to spine. Frontispiece with tissue guard in volumes I-IV, IX. Light scuffing to spines and corners. Vol. XI front board broken at hinge. Else an unmarked, clean, crisp and very attractive set. John Wilson (18 May 1785 - 3 April 1854) was a Scottish writer who most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. From Canada, so postage could be an issue, please inquire.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Thomas Duncan, A.R.A., Sir John Watson Gordon, R. Scott Lauder (illustrator). "New Edition" published 1865,1866,1867. Set of Ten volumes. "New Edition" published 1865, 1866, 1867. Hard cover 12 mo, (5 x 7 1/2 inches) in three quarters tan calf and , with five raised bands to the spine, gilt with applied leather labels in red and black. Condition: Very Good Minus with occasional loss to applied title labels, light scuffing to the cloth, and signs of shelf wear to corners, some mild toning to a few volumes. Joints firm. Two nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplates to prelims, including J.H.W. Lockhart Ross, who we have not been able to trace, but is likely a relative of John Gibson Lockhart,(1794-1854) another important Blackwood's Magazine contributor in this period, husband to Sir Walter Scott's eldest dauhgter, and whose portrait is the frontispiece to Volume 4. Marbled edges to text block remain pleasingly bright.**The material has been abstracted from Edinburgh's Blackwoods Magazine, where Prof. Wilson was a frequent contributor of essays, fiction, literary criticism and poetry between the years 1822 and 1835. The first four volumes contain the essays forming the "Nocte Ambrosianæ." As described in the Preface, this is the first authorized "New Edition" of "Nocte Ambrosianæ, overseen by the author's son-in-law , (preceded by an imperfect version published by an American, Dr. Shelton Mackenzie.) Each of these four has a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. * Collation: Vol 1, "Nochte"(1) (xxxviii), frontispiece portrait of Professor Wilson, after Christopher North, 384pp. (1). Vol. 2, "Nochte" continued. (1),(xiv), frontispiece portrait of James Hogg, the "Ettrick Shepherd," after Sir John Watson Gordon, 428pp. (1). Vol. 3,"Nochte" continued. (1), portrait of Thomas De Quincey after J.W. Gordon. 1864, (1) 382 (1) pp. Vol.4, "Nochte "(1), portrait of John Gibson Lockhart, after R. Scott Lauder, 368 pp. including index to first four volumes (1). The next several volumes give us an anthology of "Essays Critical and Imaginative." Vol. 5 (vi), 408pp.(1). Vol. 6 "Essays" continued, 397, (1) pp. Vol. 7 "Essays" on Robert Burns, Coleridge, McCauley, Shakespeare and others (1) 431 pp. (1). Vol. 8: "Essays," concerning Homer and Greek Drama. (1), 459, (1)pp. Vol. 9, "Recreations of Christopher North," portrait of Christopher North, after Thomas Duncan, A.R.A. (1), 440,(1)pp. Vol. 10 "Recreations" continued, (1) iv, 433 (1)pp. Vol. 11, "Tales" including three short novels, "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life," "Trials of Margaret Lindsay," and "The Foresters." (1) 557,(1)pp. Vol. 12, "Poems." A New Edition, including "The Isle of Palms," "The City of the Plague," "The Convict" and "Miscellaneous Poems." 1865. (1) (viii) 558 (1) pp.**Professor John Wilson, (1785-1854) once a gentleman of leisure, Wilson's family had a reversal of fortune, due to a spendthrift uncle, and thereafter found himself necessitated to study at Glasgow and Oxford, thereafter qualifying as an advocate, and finally the first Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University. The young bon vivant's country ways never left him, however, hence his hunting-and fishing alter-ego, "Christopher North." Watson III, 1308. Book.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Various (illustrator). This is a very attractive set of these works by Professor Wilson. Complete in four volumes. Each volume features an engraved frontispiece portrait of noted authors. The Noctes Ambrosianae are a series of 71 imaginary colloquies which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine between 1822 and 1835. The earlier colloquies had several different authors however Professor John Wilson was the predominate author. This edition collects the thirty-nine dialogues written by Wilson, and is edited by his son in law Professor Ferrier. Uniformly bound in full calf bindings. Externally very smart with some minor shelfwear. Spines slightly sunned. Occasional marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with only occasional spots and handling marks, heavier to earlier pages. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). An extensive collection of work by Professor Ferrier. Consisting of: Vol I, II, III, IV Noctes Ambrosianae Vol V, VI, VII, VIII Essay, Critical and Imaginative Vol X, IX Recreations of Christopher North Vol XI Tales Vol XII Poems With numerous uncut pages throughout. John Wilson of Elleray FRSE (18 May 1785 3 April 1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. He was professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University (182051). In original cloth binding with gilt decoration to the boards and spine. Externally smart with just some slight rubbing and bumping. Internally volumes are firmly bound. Pages are clean and bright throughout. Lacking title page to volume I. Very Good. book.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. {Size: 14.60 x 22.86 cms} Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2019, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1878. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 142, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 142.

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