phelps gilbert introduction (13 risultati)

Condizione: Fine. 1st thus. Cloth, F. xviii+166pp, a fine copy. An 1879 novel, the story of which deals with the trouble arising from the indecision of a squire in choosing an heir to his estate. The text follows that which appeared in the 1879 Manchester Weekly News serialization. 375 grams.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Thus. First Folio Society edition, first printing. 292pp, with illustrated frontispiece and occasional illustrations in text. Green boards with gilt decorations front and spine, gilt titles on spine. Colour illustrated endpapers. Top edge sprayed brown. Boards very slightly pushed at spine ends, hint of spotting on fore edge, else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Housed in its slipcase, shelf worn, rubbed on corners, with a little cracking in paper along edges.

Hard Boards. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick (illustratore). NO SLIPCASE. Hardback 1994. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 65/26. Life's Little Ironies: A Set of Tales by Thomas Hardy; Introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Peter Reddick Wood Engravings.

Hard Boards. Condizione: Very Good. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick (illustratore). Hardback 1994. Clean and tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. NO SLIPCASE. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 65/26. A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy. Introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Wood Engravings by Peter Reddick. Published by Folio Society, London.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good.

FIRST PRINTING. VERY GOOD COPY IN GILT EMBOSSED GREEN CLOTH WITH VERY GOOD SLIP CASE, ILLUSTRATED.

Condizione: Fine. First Folio Society edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter Venetian red cloth, rose paper sides with simple floral border design, gilt and black back, top edge red, rose end sheets. 8vo. 9¼'' x 6''. Contains [xx], 166 pp with 12 monochrome illustrations throughout by Francis Mosley. Fine condition book in Fine condition open fronted slip case. Unused and unopened new book. Member of the P.B.F.A. FOLIO SOCIETY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Illustrated by John Lawrence (illustratore). Stiff unmarked book in pale cloth with wrap-around illustration; in sturdy light green slipcase with just a faint touch of sunning. Third printing with the new foreword.; 493 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprint. This book is one of the world's great travel books, and a neglected masterpiece of our prose literature. This Folio edition is in green boards with gilt decoration. The beige grain effect slipcase has wear to its corners and extremities.

Hard Cover. Condizione: As New. First Edition. Beautiful Folio Society Edition in green pink and black illustrated cloth & light blue slipcase, First Printing with new Foreword and binding design, no markings, a Fine unread copy in Near Fine slipcase; 8vo; 493pp illus.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. xxii, 441 p. 21 cm. ; original Halcyon LCCN 48000549 ; LOC No BX885 .S45 1947 ; Dewey 282.082 ; white, black and green pictorial boards ; no dustjacket ; "Biographical note": p. 409-438. ; Contents: The Nativity/St Luke - Eight beatitudes/St Matthew - I am true vine/St John - Crucifixion/St Mark - Mission of Saint Paul/Acts of Apostles - Greatest of these/St Paul - Before throne/ Apocalypse - From canon of Mass/Missale Romanum - Petition to God saints/Litany of saints - Prophecy/Justin Martyr - Fire of love/Epistle to Diognetus - To Romans/St Ignatius - presbyters/St Polycarp - martyrdom of St Polycarp/Eusebius - Testimony of Christian soul/Tertullian - In memory of Nepotian/St Jerome - St Augustine & his mother/St Augustine - Shadow of things to come/St Augustine - To Mother of God/St Cyril - Abbot/the rule of St Benedict - Cellerar/the rule of St Benedict - Prayer to Virgin Mary/St Bernard - Glory of body/St Bernard - Consolatrix afflictorum/St Bernard - Conversion of Abelard/Peter venerable - St Bernard/Alan of Auxerre - Charlemagne/Eginhard - King Otto is victorious/Luitprand of Cremona - St Louis/Joinville - Of blessed man Paul simple/Paradise of fathers - Of blessed woman Thais/Paradise of fathers - On fall of Eutropius/St John Chrysostom - A mother's demand/Liber exemplorum - Jackdaw of Rheims/Patrologia latina - A storm at Matins/Guibert, abbot of Nogent-sour-Coucy - Give that ye may receive/Caesarius of Heisterbach - Virgin of Chartres/Abbot Haimon - Wisdom & Church of God/King Alfred - Life of man/Venerable Bede - Death of Caedmon/Venerable Bede - King Canute passes/Thomas of Ely - Love without ending/Blessed Juliana of Norwich - Cross/Richard Rolle - Meditation/Cloud of Unknowing - Testimony of St Jeanne D'Arc/Trial of Jeanne D'Arc - St Francis & stigmata/The "Little Flowers of St Francis" - A parable/Thomas of Eccleston - Of nativity of our lord Jesus Christ/St Bonaventure - Hail Mary/St Bonaventure - Pope Benedict XII/Thomas de Burton - Husband & wife/St Bernardine of Siena - Saint Martin/Jacobus de Voragine - Saint Elizabeth/Jacobus de Voragine - Saint Marcellinus/Jacobus de Voragine - Just war/St Thomas Aquinas - Evil men do/Roger Bacon - Science/Roger Bacon - Sermon preached against tyrants/Girolamo Savonarola - Meeting with Beatrice/Dante Alighieri - Dante/Giovanni Boccacio - O stelliferi conditor orbis/Geoffrey Chaucer - Books/Richard de Bury - Paradise/John Mandeville - Morality/Innocent morality - From 'Morte d'Arthur'/Thomas Malory - Holy poverty/Rule of St Francis - Customs of chivalry/John Froissart - All work & no play/Fitzstephen - At table/ErasmusFaith & comfort/St Thomas More - Last letter to his daughter/St Thomas More - Farewell of Saint Thomas More/William Roper - Death of Lady Margaret/John Fisher - Lady Margaret/Robert Southwell - Mary, Queen of Scots/Pierre de Bourdeille - Letter to Pope Gregory XI/St Catherine of Siena - Letter to Sister Daniella of Orvieto/St Catherine of Siena - Dialogue of heart/John Gerson - O sweet & savory word/Thomas a Kempis - Things that bring much peace/Thomas a Kempis - Prayer against evil thoughts/Thomas a Kempis - Prayer for mental illumination/Thomas a Kempis - True comfort/Thomas a Kempis - How great is abundance/Thomas a Kempis - Judgment day/Blessed John Ruysbroeck - Address to beloved/Ramon Lull - Questions/Ramon Lull - Hope in mercy of God/St Teresa of Avila - Distribution of alms/St Ignatius Loyola - Michaelangelo & religious art/Francisco de Hollanda - Leonardo da Vinci/Giorgio Vasari - Image & reality/Baldesar Castiglione - On heights/Francesco Petrarca - Elizabethan seminarians/Anthony Munday - Popular preacher/Joseph Francis Isla - Adventure of windmills/Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Saladin & Rosader/Thomas Lodge - Divine goodness/St Francis de Sales - Courtesy/St Francis de Sales - Brother Lawrence/Practice of presence of God - Prayer/Jacques-Benigne Bossuet - At profession of Madame de la Valliere/Jacques-Benigne Bossuet - education of girls/ ; FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. 1st Edition. A splendid Folio First Edition of a book worth knowing. Clean and tight, this looks new and unread and the specially made slipcase is sturdy. Acid proof paper and the usual high standards of sewn binding and elegant typography; an exemplary presentation of a fascinating book of its time.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Wood - Engravings by John Lawrence (illustratore). Book has no faults. One slight finger mark on green slipcase.