Frederick William Herbert (286 results)

Condition: New.

paperback. Condition: New. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). New York:: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. A clean, square copy. Inner hinges are perfect. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Introduction by the editor. Has chapters by William Ralph Inge, George Angier Gordon, Herbert Hensley Henson, Joseph Fort Newton, Ernest William Barnes, Newell Dwight Hillis, Vernon Faithful Storr, Lynn Harold Hough, Leyton Richards, and Frederick Franklin Shannon. At the start of each chapter is a 1-page biographical profile of the author. Bound in the original red cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. First Edition (so stated). Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No dust jacket. 8vo. xiii, 218pp.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: Fair. 1955. 2nd Impression. 385 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Considerable marginalia to a few pages. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. Light water marks to boards and spine.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. The Defence of Plevna, 1877 Written by one who Took Part in It. Book.

PF. Condition: New.

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HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue comprising pages 37-52; previously disbound from bound volume; former owner's name in light pencil to upper right corner of front cover; a handsome copy. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Post-Office Question; front cover engraving The Late Sir Robert Peel, Bart.; Extraordinary Balloon Ascent with engraving Ascent of M. Poiteven, on Horseback, in a Balloon, from the Champ de Mars, Paris; Wreck of the Brig 'Retriever' with engraving; California - San Francisco with engraving California: The Fremont Hotel, San Francisco; The 'Earl Cathcart' Streamer, with engraving; Metropolitan News - including Establishment for Gentlewomen During Illness; The New Postal Derangements; Funeral of Sir Robert Peel, with several engravings; Sir Robert Peel as a Statesman; Country News - including The Queen's Hospital at Birmingham; Death of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, with engraving.

Magazine. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 253-268; previously disbound from bound volume; pages lightly age-yellowed; the lightest of cover soil in places; otherwise a handsome copy. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article Bourbon or Bonaparte?; Jenny Lind in New York, with engraving; Wreck of Two Excursion Steamers, 'La Polka' and 'Superb,' and Loss of Life, with engraving; Capture of Four Noted Slavers by H.M. Steam-Frigate 'Cormorant,' on the Coast of Brazil, with two engravings; Schleswig-Holstein War, with engraving; Societies for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, with engraving of Anniversary of the Societies at Exeter Cathedral; Metropolitan News - including The Freehold Land Movement, Canterbury Settlement - New Zealand, Evening Classes for Young Men, Births and Deaths; The Great Explosion at Seaford, with engravings; The Rhuddlan Royal Eisteddvod, with engravings related to Rhuddlan Castle; The Irish Amelioration Society, Manufacture of Peat Charcoal, with engravings; Lewes Great Sheep Fair, with engraving; The Late Fire Near the Corn-Exchange - The Losses, with engraving.

Magazine. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 237-252; previously disbound from bound volume; pages lightly age-yellowed with small, very light round moisture spot to lower right corner of front cover, and larger, very light moisture spots to upper right corner area of rear cover. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: Railway Excursions; The 'Dead Heat' for the Doncaster St. Leger, with engraving; Country News - including Accident on the Eastern Counties Railway - Ten Lives Lost, Malicious Burning of Agricultural Produce in Cambridgeshire, Drawing Lightning from the Clouds; Explosion in the City, and Great Destruction of Property [London]; The War in Schleswig - Advance of the Holstein Troops, with engravings; The French President at Cherbourg, with engraving; Aerial Navigation, with splendid engraving M. Petin's 'System of Aerial Navigation'; Metropolian News - including British and Foreign Bible Society, Ragged Dormitory, Extensive Fire, Capture of Joseph Ady, Births and Deaths; Dorcaster Races - 1850, with two engravings; Festivities at Chippenham - Opening of the Cheese-Market, with two engravings; Cheese-Making, with three figures; Temporary Barrack at Ballater, with engraving.

Magazine. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 413-428, previously disbound from bound volume; pages lightly age-yellowed; a handsome copy. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Patent Laws; The Great Exhibition Building - Details of Construction, with engraving Testing the Girders; Metropolitan News - including National Benevolent Institution, The Dwellings of the Poor, Birkenhead Dock Company, Fire at the Grand Junction Canal Wharf, Shipwreck at London-Bridge, Births and Deaths; The Late Gales - Loss of Life, with engraving of the 'Lalla Rookh' in Distress; Launch of the 'Dragon-Fly' Steamer on Lake Windermere, with engraving; Naval and Military Intelligence - including Total Loss of the Brig 'Gazelle' Off Ramsgate; Country News - including Freehold Land Conference, Extensive Shopbreaking at Glasgow, Highway Robbery and Attempted Murder Near Carlisle; The Papal Aggression - Great Meeting in the City of London, with two engravings; Anti-Papal Demonstration at Salisbury, with engraving; Papal Aggression [a lengthy report, with events and documents, by town and city location]; The 'Caesarea' and 'Sarnia' Screw Steamers, with engraving of the 'Caesarea'; Paris Fashions for December, with engravings; The Great Exhibition Building - Construction Details, Unloading Girders, with engraving.

Magazine. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 397-412, previously disbound from bound volume; pages lightly age-yellowed; very light, minor foxing in places; a handsome copy. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: The Papal Vindication; Total Loss of the Emperor of Russia's Steam-Yacht, with engraving of the 'Peterhoff'; Carriage for Said Pacha, with engraving; Country News - including Post-Office Defalcation and Atrocious Attempt to Blow Up a Ship of War [Her Majesty's ship 'Swift']; Great Industrial Exhibition, at Montreal, with two engravings; Great Exhibition Building - Details of Construction; The Sash-Bar Cutting Machine, with engraving; Paying the Men, with engraving; Metropolitan News - including City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, Accident at the Works in Hyde-Park, The Jewel Robbery in the Strand, Births and Deaths; Woodcock Shooting, with engraving; Rein-Deer Presented to the Zoological Society, by W. C. Domvile, Esq., with engraving; Naval and Military Intelligence - including Captain Collinson's Behring's Straits Arctic Expedition; The Papal Aggression - Meetings, Documents, Cardinal Wiseman's Appeal; Destructive Fire in Bermondsey, with engraving; The Copying Electric Telegraph, with engraving; Archaeological Exploration at Malta, with engraving.

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue containing pages 285-300; previously disbound from bound volume; pages lightly age-yellowed; a handsome copy. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Anonymous in Public Writing; Great Exhibition of 1851 - Progress of the Building in Hyde Park, with engraving; Schleswig-Holstein [War], with engravings, map and figure; Naval and Military Intelligence - including New Scale of Pay and Provisions in the Navy; Metropolitan News - including Extensive Seizure of Stolen Plate, East Greenwich Ragged Schools, The Hungarian Revolution, Phillips' Fire Annihilation; Holyrood Palace, with engravings, including Her Majesty's Apartment at Holyrood; New Orphan House, Ashley Down, with engraving; Worcester Diocesan Training School, with engraving; The Arctic Voyage of the 'Prince Albert' In Search of Sir John Franklin, with Plan of Cape Riley and engraving Cape Riley, at the Entrance of Wellington Channel, Barrow's Straits, and Remains of Encampment.

Magazine. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue comprising pages 97-112; previously disbound from bound volume; light cover soil in places. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article Road Reform; front cover engraving House of Commons - Mode of Taking the Votes; Imperial Parliament, including Relief of Distress in Ireland; The Prisoners at Vincennes; Sentence of Death Upon the Murderers of General Brea and Captain Mangin, with engraving; South Devon Election; list of The New Sheriffs; Opening of the British Institution Exhibition, with engravings; Winter Costumes of British Troops in Canada, with engravings; Mademoiselle Jenny Lind at Worcester; The Royal Society for Protection of Life from Fire, with engraving of Davies' Fire-Escape; The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, with engraving.

Magazine. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue comprising pages 185-200; previously disbound from bound volume; light cover soil in places. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Increase of Pauperism; front cover engraving of the Trial of the Conspirators of the 15th of May at Bourges, with accompanying article; The Grand Junction Railway Engine-Works, at Crewe, with engravings; The 'Acadia,' Steam-Ship, with engraving; Dinner to Sir Charles James Napier, with splendid engraving; House of Commons - including Canadian Rebellion of 1837 and 1838; The Late Railway Fracas, with engraving; charming engravings London Characters (The Gossip of the 'Airey'; The Tavern Sot; The Customer of the Eating-House; The Fruit-Woman).

Magazine. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue comprising pages 49-64; previously disbound from bound volume; front cover shows light soil in places. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Farming of Pauper Children; front cover engraving Bengal Horse Artillery; extensive Foreign and Colonial News; Ireland, including Meeting of Irish Members - The Poor-Law; The War in the Punjaub - The Bridge of Boats Across the Ravee, Pertab Chund, Extract From a Letter of an Officer of the Bengal Horse Artillery, Major-General Sir Joseph Thackwell, Brigadier-General Cureton, C.B. - all accompanied with battle plan and several engravings; Inquest on the Tooting Cholera Cases - Verdict of Manslaughter; The Electric Light; The California Gold Mines; engraving The Inscription on the Pavement ("I am Destitute").

Magazine. Condition: VG+. First Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue comprising pages 401-416; previously disbound from bound volume; front cover shows light soil in places. With numerous, and splendid engravings, and detailed reportage of current events, history, politics, economics, trade, architecture, personalities, art, theatre, and music, highlights include: lead article The Arbitration Movement; The Egyptian Screw Steam-Frigate 'Sharkie,' with front cover engraving; The Late Insurrection at Dresden, with engraving; Governesses' Benevolent Institution with engraving Fancy Sale and Opening of the Asylum for Aged Governesses, at Kentish-Town; Foundering of an Emigrant Ship, One Hundred Lives Lost [the ship 'Maria']; The North Staffordshire Railway, with engraving.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Overview and condition: complete issue comprising pages 193-208, previously disbound from bound volume, no loose pages; light soil to front cover. With numerous, and splendid, engravings, contents include: lead article Agricultural Colleges; front cover engraving French National Guards in London; Foreign and Colonial News; Births, Marriages, and Deaths; General Cavaignac, with engraving; St. Kitts, with engraving; Her Majesty at Balmoral; Metropolitan News; Death of Lord George Bentinck, with engraving; Memoir of Lord George Bentinck; Ireland; East Lancashire Railway, with engravings; Lowestoff Harbour, with engraving; much more.