Percy W Ames Editor (4 results)

Condition: Good. 1900. No edition remarks. 171 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. …

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Endpapers foxed; ink stamp on frontfly leaf.

Frowde, London, 1909, edited with an introduction by Percy W. Ames, 222 pages, four b&w illustrations, EX-LIBRARY COPY with the usual marks, hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt titles, top page edges gilt, corners heavily worn and frayed, edges worn with some fraying, light scuffing and soil on covers, top of spine heavily scuffed, this has been inexpertly rebacked with the worn title from the original spine glued on and new free endpapers added in very white paper, old endpapers lightly soiled, some pages lightly soiled, many pencil margin marks and/or underlining, small light blue ink smudge on page 136, contents tight, book good- (G-) 2422 [Sn10KC].…

First edition. "Reproduced in facsimile, with portrait, for the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, and edited, with an introduction and notes by Percy W. Ames." Excerpt from the Introduction: "This translation, made by Queen Elizabeth during her early childhood (which is in some respects the most attractive period of her lif), constitutes an interesting illustration of he precocious ability." First published in French in 1544 : Le Miroir de l'ame Pecherresse. The English translation first appeared in 1548 under the title: A Godly Medytacion of the Christen Soul. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. 8.5" x 6" . [4pp.]/pp.45/ff.65 leaves of facsimilie manuscript. Brown calf over brown buckram with gilt crest to front board: "Royal Society Of Literature." Spine with 5 raised bands, blind stamp titles and simple decorated compartments. Hinges carefully strengthened. Marbled endpapers. Pink library label to verso of the front cover: "Lambeth Public Libraries.". Photogravure frontis of; "The Princess Elizabeth." by "J. Hyatt, Sc." Title-page in red & black. Clean text and sepia coloured facsimile leaves. However, most leaves have a small ink stamp: "The Tate Central Library Brixton, S.W." A well preserved copy of a scarce book.…