Percy Anecdotes, First Edition (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. grubby marks to endpapers. most spine missing. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Thus. [Vi] + 495 Pages. No Date Stated But Looks Late-C19th. A Soundly Bound Book, Internally Unmarked. A Little Shelf-Wear, Especially The Spine, But An Attractive Volume. Not Ex Library.

Condition: Good. First. 1/2 brown leather on marbled boards Front cover and ffep detached but present, else solid Some browning and foxing on first few pages but else text is unmarked and undamaged Joseph Clinton Robertson (c1787â"1852), pseudonym Sholto Percy, was a Scottish patent agent, writer and periodical editor He was a political radical prominent in the early days of the working-class press in London, and in the debates within the Mechanics Institute movement As a man of letters, Robertson is known for The Percy Anecdotes, 20 vols London, 1821â"3 (subsequent editions 1830, 1868, 1869, and various American editions) The volumes, which came out in forty-four monthly parts, were supposedly written by Sholto and Reuben Percy: Reuben was Thomas Byerley, and Sholto was Robertson The so-called "Brothers Percy" had met to discuss the work at the Percy coffee-house in Rathbone Place in Fitzrovia, from which the work took its name Sir Richard Phillips later claimed that the original idea arose from his suggestion, made to John Mayne and Alexander Tilloch, to file the anecdotes which had appeared in The Star newspaper over the years The Percys compiled a collection of anecdotes, on a similar plan Their success, which was a publishing phenomenon, was as a collection of "gobbets" suitable for social small-talk, or what in modern parlance would be a bluffer's guide to appearing well read Lord Byron called them indispensable 178 + ii, 178 + ii pp.

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Some foxing. Title panel missing, 140mm x 100mm (6" x 4"). 178pp, ii, 230pp. 2 engraved frontis plates. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards.

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Some foxing. 140mm x 100mm (6" x 4"). 178pp, ii, 178pp, ii. 2 engraved frontis plates. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards.

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Some foxing. 1st title missing. 140mm x 100mm (6" x 4"). 178pp, ii, 178pp, ii. 2 engraved frontis plates. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Edition Not Stated. Volume 1; good hardcover in original orange boards, blindstamped decorations with gilt lettering; SATISFACTION GUARANTEED; (box 911) Size: 2 x 4".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. Probably the first edition. Anecdotes of Genius. The full collection of anecdotes was also originally published in 1821. Contemporary half leather with marbled boards. The title is stamped to the spine. The corners are bumped with some rubbing and there is a one inch long surface tear to the rear panel. Previous owner's name in ink to the front free endpaper - Isabella Wale of Shelford near Cambridge. There is some other writing and dates to the title page and the dedication page. One third of the final page - the index - has been torn away and the rear free endpaper is also missing. There is light browning to the pages which are otherwise generally unmarked.

Condition: Good. Penned by two Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery Mont Benger. This is volume 17 of a twenty volume set. This featuring the stage and Music. Beautifully bound in blue leather with decorated spine.with titles on leather tabs. 180 pp including 2 pp index. No illustrations In very good condition. No markings. Binding sound. Second (lower) red leather tab on spine missing. small tears to leather on bottom right of cover.

Cloth. No Jacket. First Edition. Near Fine for its age , PP 497, index, tissue protected frontis, book plate of sir Charles Gairdner ex governor of western australia to front pastedown Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1st ed. thus hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy small octavo 988pp., frontis., index, Chandos Library Edition. Light wear o/w a nice copy in green blind-stamped cloth.

Half-Calf. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 178 pages + 2 page index and an engraved frontispiece and title page. Minor and very light offsetting to paper on the engraved title and frontis, the contents excellent. inscription on FFEP "H.F. Kennarth June 11th 1927". Original half calf marbled boards with spine having 5 gilt foliate panels and morocco label, some light rubbing to extremes and corners. Very good. Bound in 6's. (12mo) *Anecdotes of 62 various shipwrecks.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. First Edition. Fine whole leather binding with rich spine, board and inner decoration, slightly rubbed; guilt cuts; colour front papers; 140mm x 100mm (6" x 4"). 1 engraved frontis plate. title page slightly browned, otherwise very good condition inside; beautiful Ex.