Probyn J W Editor (4 results)

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. hardback, 3rd edition, octavo, brown cloth lettered gilt,a tightly bound copy but with foxing to front and rear, dated signature of a previous owner together with the bookplate of a subsequent owner, the text is free of marking, 418pp.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not dated, approx 1880s. 534pp. Good/None. Brown cloth boards, some rubbing and bumping to edges, slight fraying to top of spine, slight mottling. Contents clean and tight but for minor spotting/soiling, slight splitting, a couple of small tears. A collection of essays by the likes of M Longfield, George C Broderick, C Wren Hoskyns, George Campbell, T E Cliffe Leslie, Julius Faucher, R B D Morier, M Emile De Laveleye and C M Fisher. Studies of agricultural land tenure in Ireland, England, India, France, Russia, Prussia, Belgium, Holland and the USA. The Cobden Club was founded in 1866 following the death of the politician Richard Cobden, a great advocates of laissez faire capitalism and globalisation, and was devoted to the defence and diffusion of his ideas about free trade.…

Condition: Good. Title: Local Government & Taxation, Cobden Club EssaysAuthor: J W Probyn (editor)Publisher: Cassell, Petter & GalpinPublication date/edition: 1875Binding: Hardback Illustrated: NoPages: 454 and publisher list at back Description / Condition: Wear, discolouration, grub, scuff and stain marks to boards, dents to edges, creases to cloth at spine, bumps to corners. Name inscribed inside, pencil marks in margins, pages 179-190 detached. Foxing to fore-edge, browning/spotting to endpapers, discolouration to pages, folds to some corners, shipped from the UK Please see pictures for further information.…

New edition (revised and extended). Undated [1876]. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. With bookplate of George Auldjo Jamieson, 58 Melville Street, Edinburgh, to pastedowns and his blind stamp to title page. VG.