Hearne Thomas Editor (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edn. D8. 985pp, Frontis. Spines rubbed, front hinges slightly cracke, rear hinge of vol.II tender, cover rubbed and bumped, slightly foxed. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavo in fours. CXLIV, 327, [i]pp. a4-s4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Ss4. First edition. Title-page printed within double rule border. Original vellum-backed bluish-gray boards. With a folding plate of Edward the Confessor's Chapel and another listing abbreviations in Domesday. Brunet Vol. III, col.70; Lowndes p.1024. 0.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 Volumes in 1 Book, pp.xxiii, 304+668 (Vol. II itself comprises two Parts), marbled edges and end-papers, a very good hardback, full brown morocco, inner gilt dentelles, and the spine with raised bands, from an academic library, though there's minimal evidence to indicate its past except [1] the shadow on the spine and [2] colouring of the top- and fore-edges to match the marbling.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart collection of first edition volumes from the Oxford Historical Society. Ten volumes. First edition or first thus. From the Oxford Historical Society. This set contains: Letters of Richard Radcliffe and John James of Queen's College Oxford 1755-1783, 1888. Providing a fascinating insight into eighteenth century university life at Oxford through this collection of letters between clergymen Richard Radcliffe and John James of Queens College, written between 1755 and 1783, with additions, notes, and appendices. Includes a folding plate to the front of the text. Edited by Margaret Evans. Reminiscences of Oxford by Oxford Men 1559-1850, 1892. A collection a short sketches on life at Oxford University from men such as Sir Thomas Bodley, William Laud, John Evelyn, William Shenstone, and John Taylor Coleridge. Selected and edited by Lilian M. Quiller Couch, a British author. Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, 1885-1921. Eight volumes of eleven, including volumes I, II, IV, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XI. With a folding frontispiece to volume IV. A detailed record of the remarks and personal collections of Thomas Hearne, an English diarist and prolific antiquary, particularly remembered for his published editions of many medieval English chronicles and other important historical texts. With records dating from 1705 to 1735. Edited by C. E. Doble and D. W. Rannie. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine of the odd volume. Hartley Institute label to the front board of Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne volume I. Hinges starting but firm to Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, volume II. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Age toning to the endpapers with contemporary ink inscription and previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Hartley Institute punch-through stamp to the title page of Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne volume I. An ink stamp to the half-title of volume IV. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

9 volumes bound in 5, 8vo, list of subscribers, vignette to first title page, a few plates, some in text, bound in contemporary polished calf, spines gilt with raised bands a little rubbed and worn at heads of spines, with some labels chipped but legible, a sound clean set, THIRD AND BEST EDITION, at least of the early editions, only replaced by the standard modern edition of 1906-10. The most accurate 18th Century transcription of Hearne's original manuscript. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. E.Theatro Sheldoniano, 1708, First Edition, 8vo., 6 volumes in 3. Book set rebound in a contemporary brown full leather with lettering in gilt on spines, 4 raised bands. Volumes 2-6 have half title only, as issued. Small frontis under title volume 1-2, 2 fold out plates volume 5-6, errata. Text in Latin. Some scattered notes in margin at the end of volume 1-2 with a pencil drawing, else set in very good+ condition, scarce 1st edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.…

Condition: Good. Oblong 4to. 27 1x 21 cm. 5 vols., engraved titles and 249 plates (only of 250, lacking Hillingdon House plate from vol.1), the odd spot or foxing mark but largely clean internally, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, blind-stamped and panelled with gilt, a little rubbed, corners bumped.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1009029252:At head of publisher's original (part) wrappers: New copper-plate magazineEditor and principal engraver: John WalkerEngravings by J. Walker, William Walker, T. Medland, Birrell, B.T. Pouncy, James Greig, James Heath, G. Walker, William Ellis, Fitler, Barrett, J. Storer, Roberts, J. Widnell, J. Roffe, and T. Tagg; after J.M.W. Turner, Paul Sandby, Thomas Girtin, Thomas Hearne and Thomas Malton, Esther Acklom, Miss Berniers, Edward Francis Burney, Charles Catton, Jr., Richard Corbould, George Cuit, Edward Dayes, Arthur Benoni Evans, Thomas Girtin, Harraden, John Hassell, J. Hornsey, H. Jeayes, Thomas Malton, John Meheux, Conrad Martin Metz, James Moore, Francis Nicholson, John Nixon, Rev. Robert Nixon, William Orme, Alexander Reid, Philip Reinagle, Humphry Repton, Paul Sandby, Thomas Sandby, William Watts, Francis Wheatley and othersImprints undated; years of publication from monthly issues.Originally issued in 125 parts, each consisting of two plates and two letterpress leaves. Each cumulated volume contains 50 plates with associated letterpress, an index leaf and engraved title page; vols. 1, 4 and 5 have an "Advertisement" leaf; v. 5 also has a general index.Plates include great houses and significant architectural structures from various places in the British Isles. Each plate includes names of engraver and artist, but these are not indexed.Title pages are engraved; signed (v.1): Milns scrt. Puke sc.Vol. 2 with imprint: London : printed for Harrison and Co. Pater-Noster Row. & J. Walker, engraver. No. 16, Rosomans Street, Clerkenwell; v. 3-5 with imprint: London : printed for J. Walker, engraver. No. 16, Rosomans Street, ClerkenwellVol. 4: "Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, Holborn."Vols. 4 & 5 with alternative title: Elegant cabinet. …