Rev Evans a M (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Trade Edition. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have edge wear, rubbing, and spots of fraying and chipping. The top spine end has lost about half an inch worth fo the cloth. All of the cloth covers have fading and sunning. The text pages are generally clean, though there are spots of noticeable foxing throughout. There is a previous owner's ink stamped name on the first free page. "Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter. The sixth and tenth satires are some of the most renowned works in the collection. The poems are not individually titled, but translators have often added titles for the convenience of readers.".…

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. 40 pages, illustrated. Original card covers, stapled as issued. Size: 15 x 21 cms. Category: Varied Booklets; Special Interest B. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

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Leather Bound. Condition: Good. London: Printed by Dewick & Clarke, Aldersgate-Street, for R. Dutton, Gracechurch-Street, 1808. Imitation leather hardcover. Very Good. 4 x 6 1/2 inches. 134 pages. Six full-page engravings. Front free end paper is loosening and contains owner inscription dated 1818/ Owner address label inside front cover. Age toning to interior. Wear to exterior boards. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition; First thus (London, 1831). "Lanzi's History of Painting in Upper and Lower Italy. Translated and Abridged by The Rev. G. W. D. Evans, A.M. In Two Volumes." Vol. I: viii, 348pp; Vol. II: vi, 318pp. Both volumes: private ex-libris bookplates (unsigned) to the front pastedowns, else no markings, annotations, or inscriptions; ageing to the front and back endpapers, but essentially fine for the books' age. Quarter leather with marbled paper boards, decorated gilt titling to the spines; rubbing to the corners and the spines; light shelf-rubbing to the boards. Boards secure, binding tight. A tight and tidy set, surely collectible for age.…