Robert Cochrane Selected (6 results)

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, scuffs. Light cracking to hinge. Content has light toning. Toning to page ends. No DJ. Publication year circa 1890's.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. Oversized hardcover in dark green quarter leather without dust jacket, top edge gilt, bright and clear spine gilt lettering and decoration, 544 pages; bumps and light to moderate wear to cover corners and spine ends, fore and bottom edges heavily foxed with traces of penetration to outer margins of some pages, previous owner's ink city/date and embossed stamp on first blank page, but very gently used, tight in binding although looseness developing, text pages otherwise very clean and unmarked. See also our other listings in this series from William P. Nimmo: The English Essayists, and The British Letter Writers (buy the set of 3 for only $25.00, but extra S & H will be requested for these heavy books).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A handsome Victorian collection of short biographies profiling figures such as Thomas Carlyle, Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, Robert Browning, and George Moore, among others. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt and black with a portrait roundel, Greek-key corner motifs, and a bee-and-poppy design to the front board; matching gilt-lettered spine with decorative vignette. Condition: Used, showing wear consistent with age. The cloth binding is sound but shows shelf wear, with rubbing and a couple of small stains to the boards. The spine head and tail are chipped and frayed, with some loss of cloth. The front hinge has been reinforced with tape (visible on the front free endpaper) and shows a repaired crease. There is period ownership inscription to the front endpaper ("Jean Duncan, Lower IV Mathematics and Latin, The English School, Heliopolis, June 15th 1938"), which adds a nice provenance note for collectors. Text block appears clean and complete; pages have the typical light toning of the period. This copy is stamped "SPECIMEN" in purple ink on the title page.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket.

(5)-282 Pp. B&w frontispiece, plates and small illustrations at beginning and end of chapters "This volume, like its predecessor, Four Hundred Animal Stories, is mainly a gathering from recent pages of Chamber's Journal." Covers slightly scuffed, very minor wear to corners and top/bottom of spine, some minor spotting to edges. Otherwise very good Red, illustrated boards with black and gilt titles to spine and covers. Front cover illustrations show lion, tiger, and a dog; the spine shows a squirrel. No jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The original, undated [1896], Very Good 8vo. hardback copy in green cloth, attractively illustrated with telephone wires/poles, and blocked in four colours with gilt title to upper board, featuring a man and boy "OFF TO THE GOLD DIGGINGS" Similarly coloured spine with illustration of on-board sailor and pennant. Cover shows some light signs of handling but is tight, bright and strong. Plain end-papers with small neat imprint of a Norwich bookseller. Very well illustrated throughout with 34 fine engravings (many full page), chapter heads and vignettes. 295pp. Heavy industry to domestic appliances are illustrated (see listing) with an apparent emphasis on guns. Naysmyth's Steam-hammer, Bessemer Process, Krupp's 15.6 Breech-loading Gun, the Worcester Royal Porcelain Works and The Great Eastern and Persia ships are featured for instance as is a marvellous, surly-looking Edison (with his phonograph). 34 Fine Engravings (illustrator).…