preface bullen (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Pages are [8], 48, portrait frontispiece. Original boards with faded and darkened paper spine also with slight split at top rear, internally very good, owner's name to endpaper.

Editions Maritimes & d'Outre-Mer, Paris - 1970, 14x21 cm, broché, 152 pages Très bon état - Pour les envois hors de France, la tafication «livre & brochure» pour les frais de port a disparue.Les frais de port annoncés correspondent à une moyenne. Ils seront calculés au plus juste en fonction du poids de votre article.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Spine has slight wear to the ends and is darkened. ; Signed by Bullen on the front free endpaper.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Reprint. Facsimile reprint of 1609 text, an epic/satiric poem, on a popular London-area resort, Hogsdon, or Hoxton, "noted for cakes, custards, and " Pimlico " ale", and mentioned in Jonson's Alchemist; the poem itself mentions Shakespeare's Pericles, as Bullen notes in his explicatory intrroduction. One of 300 copies printed; of the Antient Drolleries series, this is No. 2. Later hardcover binding with several sheets of lined notepaper at end of text. Black cloth with gilt lettering; gilt top. Wear to spine ends and corners; library stamps and remnants of bookplate on end sheets; cover of original blue pamphlet smudged & mended, pages lightly creased. Text otherwise clean; viii, [29] pages, including an illustration from another poem deemed relevant. Size: Small Octavo.

Condizione: Fair. Volumes 1: A-E and volume 2: F-P. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Green cloth covers, spines faded, gilt text on spines. Foxing to first and last few pages, otherwise clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,2250grams, ISBN:

Leather. Condizione: Fine. None (illustratore). First edition. A fine first edition thus of Robert Paltock's 'Gulliver's Travels' inspired novel, in crushed half morocco Bayntun bindings. The first edition thus, being the first edition to feature the significant explanatory preface by A. H. Bullen.Complete in two volumes, bound in beautiful half crushed morocco by Bayntun.Illustrated with five plates to volume I, and a folding plate to volume II. Collated, complete.Retaining the original half titles.First published in 1750, Robert Paltock's work follows hero Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man who is captured by a French privateer and is sold into slavery on the African coast, and is sucked into a subterranean cavern toward the beautiful land of Graundevolet.The novel did not rise to prominence until the nineteenth century when the likes of Coleridge, Shelley, and Southey praised its utopian bent.With the morocco bookplate of W.A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey to the front pastedown of each volume. William Foyle founded Foyles bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex. Beeleigh housed his library, one of the largest private libraries in England. In signed half crushed morocco bindings, with cloth covered boards, and gilt detailing. Externally, fine, with just a touch of rubbing to the front joint of volume II. Minor mark to volume II front board. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine. book.

Three Quarter Brown Morocco. Condizione: Very Good Plus. First Edition Thus. Extra-illustrated of the fanciful adventure novel, and with a lovely Bayntun three quarter brown morocco binding 12mo. 17.5 by 11 cm. xxxii, 272, xii, 300 pp. Added are six mounted hand-colored plates, augmenting the six black and white plates which are derived from the original eighteenth century edition of this novel. The 1751 novel is in the spirit of "Gulliver's Travels" or "Robinson Crusoe", both of which it has been unfavorably compared to, although the novel also had admirers among the cream of English literature such as Sir Walter Scott and Samuel Coleridge. Condition: minor rubbing and abrasion spots on leather. Age toning to the pages.