Reverend Ward (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Crisp clean unclipped dust-jacket, fresh covers with gilt lettering on spine, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. Contains black and white illustrations. Previous owner's name in ink at front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51123101062. All our books are sent by tracked mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. with numerous illustrations, ex community library copy, Broen boards, titles on spine, black end papers, cracked hinges, good copy.

viii+40pp. 8vo. Original cloth with gilt decoration in board slipcase, b&w plates, a fine copy. Limited to 500 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. 1st British Edition. Brown cloth with gilt sp. lettering, top edge of text-block dark pink. xi + 155, 36 facs, plates of original text to l.h. pp. facing translation. No obvious faults to either text-block or cover. Unclipped jacket clean and unmarked but slight rubbing and a few minor nicks to edges and sp. ends, esp. top edge, more seriously a scuff to top fr. edge has affected the 'ng' of 'King', will add protective sleeve when ordered. Apparently very scarce in UK. U.S. edition by Vanderbilt University Press issued 1969. 18 cm x 26.5 cm.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked blue cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 245 pages; Physical desc. : pp. 245. 8vo 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked blue cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 245 pages; Physical desc. : pp. 245. 8vo 1 Kg.

Condition: Very Good. 344pp, bound in a St Edmund's College presentation binding, 1/2 leather, raised bands, gilt, all edges marbled, flyleaves and paste-downs marbled, St Edmund's Prize bookplate on front paste-down (awarded to a James Conroy for French), illustrated, frontispiece St' Edmund's College, unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not called for>. 2nd Edition. "Gems of Home Scenery" series. A nice copy with Green, Black and Gilt designs to front boards, Six chromographs "Chromographed by Marcus Ward "plus vignettes and wood engravings by T.L.Rowbotham. TEG Spine tips bumped, some light foxing to prelims.Pages 30-35 have what looks like a light ink stain on top right hand corner of each page. T.L. Rowbotham/ Marcus Ward (illustrator).…

Twelve duodecimo volumes, with 117 engraved plates (of 118 lacking plate XXVII 'Black tiger, male panther and lynx'); preliminaries thumbed, title of one volume perforated and another significantly browned, one leaf of text ink-stained, general foxing and offsetting; original sheep leather binding, scuffed with split hinges; worn, as is often the case with juvenile literature of this period, but a charming set. A comprehensive natural history encyclopaedia for young people, based on Pennant's system of classification. Animals are arranged according to quadrupeds, fish, birds, and insects, and each of these classifications is separately indexed. Besides the more usual natural history descriptions of animals, vegetables and minerals this work is the first to describe for children Australia's most famous marsupial -- the kangaroo. The entry under the Jerboa (vol. III p. 172) reads, "Mr. Banks brought home the skin of an animal, which he calls the kanguroo [sic], which, from its general outline, and the most striking peculiarity of its figure, greatly remembers the jerboa, yet it entirely differs in size, and in many of those minute distinctions which point out the general ranks of nature. The kanguroo is often known to weigh above fifty pounds." The kangaroo was first seen by both Banks and Cook on 24 June 1770, and the first description of it appeared in Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages published in 1773: "I should have taken it for a wild dog, if instead of running, it had not leapt like a hare or a deer. Mr. Banks also had an imperfect view of this animal, and was of opinion that its species was hitherto unknown." During the remainder of the exploration of the east coast of Australia, Cook records that both he and Banks shot and ate kangaroo on several occasions. He records two in particular that weighed eighty pounds and fifty-four pounds, the skins of which Joseph Banks took back to England with him. Illustrations of over four hundred animals finely engraved in copper complete this charming eighteenth-century work intended solely to be used by children. . …

Condition: Very Good +. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to front board. Minor loss of cloth to crown of spine. Faint residue of removed library label to spine and front board. Peach endpapers. Light scattered foxing as is typical of the period. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Ward's husband, the compiler: "Reverend Mr. Ellingwood with the respects of J.W. Ward." Bookplate on the front pastedown reveals that the recipient Rev. Ellingwood went on to donate the volume to the Theological Seminary of Bangor, Maine. A scarce and important example of a published American elegiac volume, produced in this case by an eminent family to mourn the loss of an educated woman. Memoirs is unrecorded by OCLC and has never appeared at auction. In their marriage, James Wilson Ward and Hetta Lord Hayes Ward united two prominent Northeastern families. A senator and Congregationalist minister, James descended from the founders of Plymouth and had attended Andover and Amherst. Hetta, the daughter of a judge and niece of a Dartmouth president, was herself a graduate of Miss Grant's Seminary Academy. The present volume, released "exclusively for private circulation among the friends of the deceased," is a testament to Hetta's value not as a daughter who married well or a wife who effectively managed a house, but as a companion, an intellectual, and an individual. In this sense, it deconstructs the period's expectations of separate spheres or hierarchy between sexes. With an opening letter by Susan Hayes, Hetta's mother, as well as a copy of the eulogy conducted by her husband, the book reveals vast details about who Hetta was as a person. Both describe her as tender and affectionate; but time and again, emphasis is placed on her mind. Though Hetta was skillful with a needle as a child, according to her mother, "her numberless questions interested and surprised me.She acquired a fondness for poetry.She became as much interested in the in the study of the exact sciences as in the works of imagination, making herself acquainted with the higher branches of Mathematics, Algebra, Geometry, etc." James, similarly, eulogizes his wife. What becomes clear is that he is grieving the loss of a companion and equal. "If we have found a friend of distinguished excellence, and for years rejoiced with that friend in mutual interchange and warm affections, it is natural when death intervenes and separates us from the dear object of our love, to contemplate their virtues.First characteristic which I would notice which she possessed in an eminent degree is an ardent love of truth.She possessed great powers of abstraction.She saw with great clearness the point of an argument and was quick to distinguish between sophistry.She loved to trace the workings of the human mind." Not satisfied simply to have their own testaments to Hetta's extraordinary mind, the compilers included to the last half of the book a collection of her own poetry and prose. A scarce work, in a genre underappreciated in American literature and history. Such coterie publications of intimate mourning were uncommon for the time, particularly for a woman. National Cyclopedia of American Biography 148. Very Good +.…