Maplet John (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Some staining to boards. Corners are bumped, edges are worn. Spine area is faded with mild bumping to ends. The page edges are rough cut. Some foxing to endpages and throughout. Limited edition #260/550. 184 pp. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 893g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 029287:1-R7) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 893 G. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprinted from the Edition of 1567. Limited Edition to 575 copies. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited edition (unnumbered). Spine a little faded, o/w NEAR FINE.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition [of 575 copies]. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Spine sunned. Light foxing to endpapers. 260mm x 200mm (10" x 8"). ix, 186pp. Unnumbered copy. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 1930, Limited edition of 575 copies - this copy not numbered. Reprinted from the edition of 1567. Quarto. viii, 183pp. Original green buckram. A little soiled and rubbed at extremities. Spine discoloured. Neat former owner signature to corner of end paper. Otherwise a 'Very Good' copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition in gilt-stamped dark green buckram in a total edition of 575 copies, one of 500 numbered copies printed on Abbey Mills paper at the Cambridge University Press, this #184, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright & unfoxed, rubbed wear to boards with a few quiet scratches, a little toning to bevelled board edges, else Fine copy of this beautiful production reprinting the edition of 1567 for the first time; 4to; (viii) [4] 185pp + colophon.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). An intriguing edition of A Greene Forest, a varied record of rocks, animals and plants originally written in the seventeenth century. A Greene Forest, a natural history compiled by physician to Charles II, John Maplet. An introduction is written by Welsh poet and writer W.H. Davies. Published by The Hesperides Press in 1930, originally published in 1567. This edition is one of 556 copies that went on sale.In the publisher's original green cloth.Addressed to Lord Thomas of Suffolk, Maplet compiles an informative record of rocks, plants, trees, fungi and animals that leads to some fascinating seventeenth century descriptions of peacocks and rhinos. It gives great insight into how a British man in the Stuart era saw the natural world. In the publisher's original green cloth. Externally, very smart with minimal signs of shelf wear. Fading to the spine and to the extremities. Spotting to the end papers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot to the extremities. Heavier spotting to pp.142-157. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. One of 50 numbered copies signed by Davies, from a total edition of 575 copies. Bound in full green vellum and printed on Millbourne pure rag hand-made paper. Reprinted from the 1567 London edition of Henry Denham. Uncut. Spine sunned, slipcase sunned and chipped at extremities. Near fine condition in a very good slipcase. Signed.

Large 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 183, [3], [2 (blank)]; title and limitation printed in green and black; a very good copy in publisher's green paper over boards, spine lettered directly in git, top-edge gilt, others uncut, with green cloth slipcase; sunning to spine and light rubbing to boards, slipcase sunned and rubbed with a few small chips at extremities.Limited edition, numbered 31 of fifty copies on Millbourne pure rag hand-made paper, signed by Davies. Language: English.

Hardback. Reprinted from the edition of 1567 With an introduction by WH Davies This edition has been limited to 50 copies This copy produced on milbourne pure rag handmade paper signed and numbered 32 Signd By W H Davies. book.

First edition thus: reprinted from the edition of 1567. Quarto. pp xii, 186. Five-page Introduction by W.H. Davies. Number 47 of 50 copies on Millbourne pure rag hand-made paper signed by Davies at the end of the Introduction and specially bound in full green vellum, out of a total edition of 575 copies. As often happens with coloured vellum the covers are differentially toned. A little surface abrasion to covers. Very good in very good, slightly rubbed and partially faded slipcase.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1567 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: 258 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: 258.