cralle richard editor (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Volume II only. 652 pages. Boards worn, damp stained. Spine ends fraying. Considerable foxing and some damp stains to interior. Pages do not stick together, binding tight, book complete. (H2).

VOLUME V ONLY of a six volume set. i-viii, 1-461, [1], [2] pages. Hardcover: H 22.5cm x L 15cm. Contemporary full calf leather binding; rubbing and scuffs to boards; slender splitting to front and rear joints but hinges remain firm; spine decorated with four slightly raised bands and two gilt lettered black title labels; some abrasions and chip to top label and its lower band; fractional loss to scuffed spine head. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Front pastedown features rare surviving mid-19th century yellow paper bookplate for "Belles Lettres Society," a literary society at Lorman, Mississippi's Oakland College, a Presbyterian Church-affiliated four-year college which operated from 1830-1861 and which was the forerunner of Alcorn University; bookplate hand-numbered in antiquarian ink twice (one being a correction) and initialed "CJ" in pencil along with printed motto "Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna." (from Horace's "Art of Poetry" which translates to "Turn over [the pages] by night and by day"). Three-line antiquarian ink inscription "Presented to | Belles Lettres Society | By Dr. A.T. Bowie" on front flyleaf (quite likely Dr. Allen Thomas Bowie Sr., 1813-1872, who varyingly resided in Natchez and Post Gibson, Mississippi as well as St. Joseph, Louisiana with the latter town lying almost immediately west of the Oakland-Alcorn campus). Toning/foxing throughout. Publisher's two page literature title list at rear. Binding is firm. Provenance from a Columbia, Mississippi estate of a family with multi-generational roots in in Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi.