Rev Edward Downman (3 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition book. No dust jacket. Minor edge wear, and a few small marks to pale blue cloth boards. Spine sun faded, with some slight fraying to the ends. A tan to the page edges. Contents remain clear and crisp within. A bright, firm copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 6th edition. 12mo. 436 pages. Pale blue cloth boards; gilt titles on spine; vignette of teapot on front board. Monochrome plates from photographs, including frontispiece; illustrations in the text. 4 pages of advertisements near front. Boards with a few spots; edgeworn; spine discoloured. Fore edge of text block spotted. Endpapers lightly toned. Pages generally clean with just the odd spot. Front hinge starting to crack; gutters cracking in places but leaves remain firmly bound. …

Full-Leather. Condition: Fair. Volume one leather boards are detached and the spine is missing. Volume two front leather board detached, back board and spine missing and front marble end page, previous owners old name label on front inside board. Both volumes have gilt side page edges and previous owners initials on the title page. Suitable for re-binding. First and only edition, edited by the Cornish poet Richard Polwhele, but sponsored and published by a literary society in Exeter - and largely written by them. Polwhele's preface gives a good deal of information about the contributors, who include Samuel Badcock, John Bamfylde, Hugh Downman, Edward Drewe and Stephen Weston - as well as Polwhele himself. The only named female contributor is 'Miss Hunt', the daughter of Dr Rowland Hunt of Stoke Doyle, Northants, who wrote an elegy on Dunkeswell Abbey (a little north of Honiton). This is Mary Hunt (1764-1834), who is said to have been a friend of the Bowdler family, and to have taught Princess Charlotte (d. 1817). She spent the latter part of her life at Exeter and is buried at the Cathedral there.…