Rev Phipps Onslow (3 results)

Condition: Good. 1883. No Edition Remarks. 367 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Black, white and red pull-out map to frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Fabric & Board. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Blue fabric on board covers with embossed black decoration and gilt titles and decoration to front and spine, some edge wear with sun tanned spine. 367 numbered pages including index followed by a few of adverts, some penciled lines and a few of light blue ink, ink stamp for church house worcester to fep, map intact, some light foxing. Binding good but loose in places, no loose pages. Size 12 x 17 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Diocesan Histories. Worcester. By Rev. I. Gregory Smith M.A. and Rev. Phipps Onslow M.A. Published by The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1883. A First Edition. Size: 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches. Page number: 367 with several pages of advertisements at the rear. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth embossed with black and gilt. The Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge is the oldest Anglican mission organization. It was established by Rev. Dr. Thomas Bray in1698 and apart from Oxford and Cambridge is the oldest publishing house and organization in England. From the 1830's it embarked on the publication and distribution of general religious histories of the Anglican church and this The Diocesan History of Worcester is one of them. Condition: Very Good. The boards are clean, the corners only a very little bumped, the top and bottom of the spine showing onlya little wear. The text block is tight and clean but for a little foxing throughout, particularly at the edges of the pages. The fold out map, 'The Annals of Worcester, that faces the title page is present and intact. The front end paper is a little cracked. It has the previous owners name written on it; also 'Xmas 1883'. In the corner there is a book sellers sticker. The rear end paper is also cracked but to a lesser degree.