Mr w whitehead (13 risultati)

Bell's Edition. Poor copy with wear, tear and dust-dulling as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 50 pages. Subjects; Mr. W. Whitehead. English Tragedy. The Roman Father. 1 Kg.

Bell's Edition. Poor copy with wear, tear and dust-dulling as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 50 pages. Subjects; Mr. W. Whitehead. English Tragedy. The Roman Father. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Full leather binding in very good condition. PO bookplate. Publication dates for plays are: 1792, 1793, 1792, 1792. Front board loosening. Binding secure. All plays adapted for theatrical representation as performed at Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent Garden. Book. …

Disbound. Condizione: Good. 58, [2] p. 18 cm. Frontispiece (Mr. Henderson in the character of Horatius) and tissue guard detached. With a final advertisement leaf. Back endpapers coming loose. Also issued as part of: 'The New English Theatre', vol.12, London, 1776-77.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. distinguishing also the variations of the theatre, as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden, by permission of the managers, by Mr Wild prompter, modern paper wrappers, frontispiece, minor spotting, very good. 52 pages; keywords: drama.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Full leather binding in very good condition. PO bookplate. Publication dates for plays are: 1792, 1793, 1792, 1792. Front board loosening. Binding secure. All plays adapted for theatrical representation as performed at Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent Garden. Book. …

Edit. Casterman - "Histoires fantastiques", 1969, in-8°, 330 pages, cartonnage éditeur, sous jaquette illustrée (bords lég. défraîchis), sinon très bon état, couvert avec soin. Français.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Complete set of The Little Book Series IV: Past Masters of Horror and Dark Fantasy. Signed limited editions, all matching number 182. Fifteen hardcovers in three slipcases. Clean and bright. Bindings strong. Minimal shelf wear. Lovely set in fine condition. Additional photos available upon request. All of our books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box. Signed by Authors.…

Condizione: Fair. [Reprint]. Worn condition. Cover heavily rubbed with loss to spine. Hinges cracked and weak. Some foxing, but content in overall good condition. 180mm x 100mm (7" x 4"). 377pp + adverts. 6 engravings. Marked with the Variations in the Managers Books at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The Orphan published in 1776 for J. Rivington and Sons and Medea published in 1777 for T. Cadell. Each play includes a list of Dramatis Personae. Brown hardback half-leather cover.…

Leather. Condizione: Good. The first collected edition of William Whitehead's poetry. With the half title and errata as called for. Collated, complete. With the bookplate of the Earl of Jersey to the front pastedown. Has the armorial crest and 'Middleton Park' which was where the family resided. This bookplate is likely to be that of William Villiers, the 3rd Earl of Jersey. From the antiquarian library of Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe was a schoolmaster in Norwich and then in Bristol. Throughout his career he inspired many to love literature, history and music. He was a specialist on 17th century printer and bookseller, Humphrey Moseley and began his, unfortunately unfinished, PhD dissertation on him. This work comprises of a collection of William Whiteheads poetry as well as his popular tragedy The Roman Father which was first produced by David Garrick in 1750. In a full calf binding with gilt stamping to spine. Externally, worn to the spine and joints. Remnants of tape repair across spine to boards. Loss to the head and tail of spine and to the raise bands. Joints are heavily rubbed. Rubbing to the extremities. Front joints are starting but firm with the hinges slightly strained but firm. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, one of the Villiers family of Middleton Park. Another prior owner's bookplate to recto of front endpaper, Christopher Rowe. Library blind stamp to recto of front endpaper and title page, Birbeck College. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned with the odd spot throughout. Good. None (illustratore). book. …

Leather. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A wonderful example of the scarce first edition of this collection of poems and plays from Poet Laureate William Whitehead. The first edition of this work. A scarce collection of these works from William Whitehead, including both his poetry, and the tragic drama 'The Roman Father'. ESTC T62744 With the contemporary inscription of Anne Merefield, dated 1755, to the half title. Retaining half title and errata. Rebound, with endpapers renewed. William Whitehead was an English poet and playwright who served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 1757 to 1785. Rebound in calf backed marbled paper covered boards, with endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to half title head. Pages lightly age toned due to paper type, but clean. Very Good Indeed. None (illustratore). book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 'The Danger of Writing Verse', 16 pp bound with' Ann Boleyn to Henry the Eighth', London 1743, 16 pp bound with' Atys and Adrastus, aTale In the Manner of Dryden's Fables', Second Edition, London 1744, 18 pp bound with' On Nobility: An Epistle to the Right Honble the Earl of ----', London 1744, 14 pp bound with' An Essay on Ridicule', London 1743, 20 pp. Bookplate of Sir Lucius O'Brien on paste down fep. Signature of Edward O'Br at head of first title page. Text very clean and bright. Very good hardback in stained, contemporary full calf.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Thick octavo. Bound in contemporary leather over worn marbled boards. All edges dyed red. Solid, but somewhat worn binding and cover. Scattered foxing. Includes 36 plays, most with frontispiece illustrations preceding the title. 10 of the plays are by William Shakespeare. Contemporary signature of Charles Coxwell. Coxwell has hand written the table contents. The plays are separated into Tragedies: 1. Theodosius, 2. King Charles the First, 3. Philaster, 4. Coriolanus, 5. The Roman Father, 6. Electra, 7. Oedipus, 8. Timon of Athens; and Comedies: 9. The Suspicious Husband, 10. The Funeral or Grief a la Mode, 11. The Beggar's Opera, 12. The Busy Body, 13. The Drummer, 14. As you like it, 15. The Rehearsal, 16. The Merchant of Venice, 17. Rule a Wife, & Have a Wife, 18. The Inconstant, or the Way to Win Him, 19. The Constant Couple, 20. Trip to the Jubilee, 21. The Spanish Friar, 22. The Orators, 23. Taste, 24. The Minor, 25. The Tempest, 26. The Englishman in Paris, 27. The Knights, 28. The Beaux Stratagem, 29. The Conscious Lovers, 30. The Midsummer Night's Dream, 31. Much ado about Nothing, 32. King Henry the 8th, 33. The Merry Wives of Winsor, 34. All's Well, that ends well, 35. The Provoked Wife, 36. The Recruiting Officer.…