John Claridge Shepherd (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. FFEP foxed. DJ has edge wear and chips.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. MARGARET WEBB (illustrator). 1st Edition. Royal Blue Cloth Boards with gilt blocked titles and blocked foliage image to front, 190 x 130 mm approx. 128 pp. 28 wood engravings by Margaret Webb. First Sylvan Press printing 1946 with 15 page intro by G.H.T.Kimble followed by the intro to the 1827 edition. The book was first published in 1670 under the title "The Shepherd's Legacy." A charming book on weather lore in the countryside. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good - no dust jacket (Book- a little colour rubbing to cloth at extremities, no notable soiling. book block clean with no previous owner name or insc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Margaret Webb (wood engravings) (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback 128 pp. 28 wood engravings Page edges tanned otherwise Very Good condition in very Good unclipped dust jacket (slightly foxed, now in protective transparent sleeve). No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustwrapper. Margaret Webb (illustrator). The endpapers are spotted .name to fep.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A New Edition, Corrected. ".By which you may know The Weather for several Days to come, and in some Cases for Months. To which is added a Rational Account of the Causes of such Alterations, the Nature of Wind, Rain, Snow, &c.". 56 pp hb in stiff card all original 13 x 20 cms. Title page faint ownership inscription "Julia Peel". Some faint watermark staining to top board only (see image). A rare survivor. [First appeared as: a pamphlet dating from 1670, by a shepherd called "John Claridge of Hanwell"].

Disbound. Condition: Fair. Disbound 64 page pamphlet: (4), viii, 64 held firmly by remnants of leather spine. Internally second page lined in ink and title written in freehand (tip of top corner missing); soiling to pages of Introduction and first seventeen pages, then largely absent until 63/64 which has tatty edge, stains and a few written numbers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

A New Edition, Corrected. Very Good- pp.56 orig. boards worn, printed label states HULL: sold by A.D. English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. (title continues) By which you may know, the weather for several days to come, and in some cases for months. To which is added, a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c. The Second Edition, Corrected, 1748. Pp x 54. Bound in contemp. reddish-brown sheep with tooled border round edges of covers. Recased with old spine relaid, preserving original marbled eps. Aeg. Head and tail of spine chipped, corners rubbed, but an attractive copy. Large bookplate on verso of ffep featuring a lion rampant regardant.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1744 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 73 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 73.