graves rev richard (10 risultati)

Condizione: Fair. 1850. 509 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Hinges are cracked, with some exposed netting and a loose binding. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Third Edition, xx + 378pp. 3 x 5 inches, engraved frontis and additional engraved title - both slightly foxed, hardcover, bound in full polished morocco, spine expertly and neatly re-laid, good condition, Walker and Edwards, London, 1816. * the book ridicules the enthusiasm of Wesley Methodism.

in 2 vols, vol 1 only. pp454. Front board missing, lacking most of spine, title page worn with loss, Rear board detached. o/w G.

Engraved frontispiece and additional title. 12mo (5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches), contemporary half black calf, marbled boards, spine gilt ruled and lettered direct. Engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A very nice copy. A satire on the itinerant & illiterate preachers among the Methodists.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. [Graves, Rev. Richard]. The Spiritual Quixote, or The summer ramble of Geoffry Wildgoose. A comic romance, to which is prefixed the life of the author. London: printed for J. Walker [et al], 1808. Hardback, VG. Full leather, bumped to corners with some light shelfwear to edges. Gilt frame to front and reverse. Panel in four panels with five gilt bands, gilt decoration and titles. Binding strong.Frontispiece b/w illustration and illustrated title page. Thin cloth bookmark, detached. 578pp. Occasional fooxing spot but generally contents clean and bright. Edges of the page block gilt. Richard Graves (4 May 1715 23 November 1804) was an English cleric, poet, and novelist. He is remembered especially for this picaresque novel The Spiritual Quixote (1773). The comic romance is a satire on the itinerant and illiterate preachers among the Methodists. It follows the religious and romantic adventures of its hero, a young Oxford man, who, living in retirement with his mother in the country, decides to become an evangelist, although mainly from the lack of any other more interesting occupation. Miniature format approx. 13 x 7cm. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. TA 22/04/06.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. This is the 9th. edition (1858) of Graves on the Pentateuch, leather bound with five raised bands and sharp gilt titles to the spine and simple decorations to the spine and boards. There is minor rubbing to the edges of the boards but this copy would grace any library. Internally there is spotting to the prelims but the main text block is extremely clean and sharp. For its age the book is in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Sixth Edition. Hardback copy in half bound black leather, black boards, 4 raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 509pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, some rubbing to board edges, few marks to page margins. (41/5).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback 2 volume set. A New Edition. vol 1 314 pp Vol 2 330 pp Both volumes are half bound with marbled paper and calf and are in very good condition. All edges are marbled although this is fading. There is some rubbing to the corners and a small area on the spine, and the title label and volume number is missing.

Leather-bound. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Second Edition. 16mo. (6 3/4" x 4") Full leather set, worn, ruled in gilt, all rebacked. Five raised bands, with contrasting black spine labels. Picaresque novel ".satirizing John Wesley, George Whitefield and Methodism in general, which he saw as a threat to his Anglican congregation.It ridiculed the intrusion of the laity into spiritual functions." (Wikipedia). Richard Graves (1715-1804) was an English cleric, poet and novelist.