John lord sheffield ed (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 9 x 5.5", gilt-lettered blue cloth, 381pp, covers quite rubbed and with some light spotting, former owner's ink name on front fly, textblock heavily foxed. SCARCE autobiography.

Leatherbound. Condizione: Fair. xii, 480 p. 22 cm. Full leather. From our As Is shelf. Front cover missing, rear hinge cracked, spine ends chipped, corners worn. Reference label on half title.

Condizione: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition Thus. First single volume edition. Full calf leather binding. Spine with four raised bands, morocco title label, gilt decoration to compartments. Single gilt fillet border to boards, gilt decorated board edges, blind tooled turn-ins. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Rubbing and slight marking to boards. Good solid binding with no cracking to joints. Patches of foxing throughout the text. Engraved frontis, with offsetting to the title page. Provenance: from the library of Williamstrip Park, Coln St. Aldwyns - seat of the Hicks Beach family. Gift inscription to leading blank: 'Michael Edward Hicks Beach, from his sincere friend Barclay Field, on his leaving Eton. Election 1855'. The recipient was Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt., 1st Earl of St. Aldwyn and 9th Baronet of Beverston. He had a long political career, serving as a Conservative MP from 1864 until 1906, twice serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and briefly as Leader of the Opposition in 1886. . Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14.5 x 22.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: Large 8vo. xv, [1], 848.…

Full-Leather. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. first (only?) Dublin edition, enlarged from the London edition of the same year, in three volumes, full calf much worn, most hinges cracked, vol 3 split in two in middle of binding, frontispiece silhouette portrait of Gibbon in vol 1 has shadowed onto title page, a little occasional foxing, mostly in margins, text clean and tight apart from defects mentioned, bookplates and shelf marks of Carton House Library (Co. Kildare) in all volumes. Interesting set in need of repair. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…