clarke rev edited (5 risultati)

Leather. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. This copy is bound in a light brown leather with gilt lettering in a red leather spine label. There is some rubbing and light scratches of the covers, corner bumping with board beginning to show. Hinges and gutters are solid, will need careful handling. Interior text has yellowed with age, some foxing and shadowing. Many upper corners of the text were bent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. GD+ original blind-stamped speckled cloth, corners bumped, spine ends worn, mild foxing to edges, otherwise clean throughout.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1863, First Edition. Full green polished calf leather binding, gilt titles, raised gilt bands, intricate gilt decoration to the compartments, marbled page edges, paste downs and end papers. Faded to the front board. xxvii, 303pp. Approximately 8 ¾ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles on brown label, five raised gilt bands, intricate gilt decoration to the compartments. Joints good condition gently rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped and worn. Boards good condition polished green calf leather boards, the upper board very faded, rear board bright, gilt borders to both, the outer edges of the boards are also decorated in gilt. Page edges good condition top edge slightly darkened, all marbled. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition intact. Paste downs good condition marbled with blind tooled dentelles. End papers good condition marbled, subsequent end papers tanned and foxed, the first free end paper with a personal hand written message dated Easter 1865. Title good condition lightly tanned and foxed. Pages good condition lightly tanned throughout, there is a small piece of page 211 missing to the fore edge margin. Binding good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1863 Binding: Hardback.

, xcvi, 290, vi, 318, & vi, 340 pages, with memoir and critical dissertation in volume 1 Reprint , volumes in similar condition, lightly rubbed at spines, covers clean and tight, previous owner's bookplate (Edward Charles Corfe) at front of each and prize inscription from his college warden at front of volume 1, occasional light spots to pages, books in very good condition , full dark grey calf with blindstamped design, gilt crest to front, gilt titles and decoration to spine, marbled endpapers, full red edges Octavo Hardback ISBN:

Condizione: Good. First American edition presumed (also published by by B. Waugh and T. Mason in the same year); 7 x 4 1/2; pp. [7], 8-249; full roan over boards; red morocco label and gilt title and ruling to spine; some wear and splitting to leather along spine; occasional age-toning and foxing (most notably to first and last few leaves); in good or better condition.Adam Clarke (1762 - 1832) was a prolific Irish author, biblical scholar, and Methodist theologian - serving three times as President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference. He was also an amateur historian, one of the first to be invited by the Royal Society of Antiquarians to study then-newly-acquired by Britain Rosetta Stone, member of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the American Historical Institute and a Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society.