Hodgson Rev Robert (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Hbk, [4], 319, [1]p, plate.Some wear to corners of leather binding, decorations in gilt. Some foxing to end-papers and frontispiece port, previous owner's name and a few annotations in pencil only o/w a very clean copy in good condition. [Porteus, Beilby 1731-1809 - Church of England Clergy ; Biography - Bishops England London ; Biography - Theology] d983 / m14930. …

[Religious history] LEATHER-BOUND EARLY EDITION, the third. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 320 [4]. With a stipple-engraved frontispiece by Charles Picart. Contemporary tan full diced calf, board edges gilt-ruled. Spine with gilt titles, raised bands, and blind tooling. Marbled endpapers. All edges speckled red. Internally bright and clean, the odd bit of spotting here and there. Offsetting from frontispiece to facing leaves. Calf moderately marked and discoloured to extremities. Slight cracking to joints. Light edgewear. Very good. Beilby Porteus (1731-1809), initially bishop of Chester and then of London, was a leading English abolitionist who at first tried to limit the volume of human trafficking to England but eventually called for the dismantling of slavery itself.…

Condition: Good. New-York 1811 Ezra Sargeant. 12mo., 233pp., later rebinding in marbled boards with cloth backstrip. Title in mss ink on spine. Good, opens to title page which has long closed tear and several ink and stamped number, text foxed and lightly browned.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A lovely copy of the second edition of Rev. Hodgson's biography of the life of Reverend Beilby Porteus, in full tree calf. The second edition of Rev. Hodgson's biography of the life of Reverend Beilby Porteus, in full tree calf.With a portrait frontispiece of Rev. Porteus engraved by C. Picart from an original drawing by H. Edridge.With one page of original publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work. In full tree calf. Externally, excellent with light shelf wear to the extremities. Slight cracking of leather to spine labels and the odd mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned with spotting, heaviest to the first and last few. With one page of original publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…