procter william editor (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. --Black and gilt spine with title and with date 1853 and covers are near black, book is 9" tall. 594 pages, this book is about 175 years old, but it is more solid than most new books !! Tight solid straight binding, some foxing spots, but all readable. in remarkable condition. no illustrations, no dust jacket.

Disbound. Condizione: Poor. Sub-title is The Arrangements, Apparatus, and Manipulations of the Pharmaceutical Shop and Laboratory. 576 pages, plus 32 pages of ads; 18 chapters; b/w figures; tables; index. The front board is present, but loose, and has threadbare spots and stains. The back board is missing. The spine strip is chipped and is glued to the text block spine. The title page and text block ends are very darkened. The title page has scrapes and chips. Scans e-mailed upoon request.

On upper half of a piece of quarto paper, unevenly torn to make a piece roughly 11 x 18.5 cm. Fair: on aged paper. Part of address from previous letter to 'W. Jerdan | 267 Strand ' on reverse, which is docketed 'Procter | Miss Proby | Cornwalls poems'. Reads 'I inclose you a note left here for you | George says he will review the book for you next week - in the meantime give a flourish in your notice - 'The time does not admit of doing just to the vol. &c &c We are all a Party in this success -'. Jerdan acquired the premises at 267 Strand with his purchase of 'The Satirist' from George Manners, and retained them during the early days of his editorship of the 'Literary Gazette' (beginning circa 1819).