Language: English
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
US$ 62.26
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait printed circa 1800 . Mounted/matted and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase an unusual and attractive engraving.
Published by Published by J. Rivington and Sons, B. Law, J. Robson, G. Robinson and Others, London, 1779
US$ 131.43
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Add to basket, 4 uniform volumes, 407, 436, 420, and 376 pages, plus index at end of volume four Third Edition , spines rubbed and with some loss at head and tails, a few marks to boards, previous owner's bookplates at front of each volume, some weakened joints but holding, text clean, books in good condition , full tan calf, gilt titles on brown leather labels, gilt bands to spine and gilt board edges, black top edge Octavo Hardback ISBN:
Published by William Baynes and Son, London, 1824
US$ 228.27
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Add to basketLeather. Condition: Good Only. None (illustrator). A biographical history of influential Englishmen from Saxon times to the eighteenth century. Fifth edition, with upwards of four hundred additional lives. 'Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system and a help to the knowledge of portraits: interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons, not to be found in any other biographical work.' Including biographies of Henry Booth, Richard Talbot, Samuel Clarke and many others. Bookplate of Colchester Public Library to front pastedowns. Complete in six volumes. In half-morocco bindings. Externally, smart, though with some slight rubbing. Insitutional lettering and labels to the spines. Joints are cracked and very tender. One board is held by the cords only. Loss to one backstrip. Internally, firmly bound. Institutional ink stamps throughout. Pages are bright, and quite clean, with just a few instances of foxing. Good Only. book.