Right rev creighton (9 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. New Edition. Good condition hardback brown boards showing title etc clearly on front board, no DJ. 144 pages good with clear print. There is a small ink stain on page 131. Previous owner have stuck their name and address inside on a label. A few contents to mention: The coming of English, Danes, Norman Conquest, Crown and the Barons, The great charter, rise of the commons dissensions among the barons, the Tudor despotism, etc etc.…

Three Quarter Leather. Condizione: Very Good. Sixth Edition. Three quarter leather binding over marbles boards.Gilt titling on spine, 5 raised bands. Marbled page edges. Marbled end papers. Owernership name dated 1888. Folding frontis map in colour of Europe, closed tear. xx, 236 pages clean and tight. Includes four genealogical tables and five maps. When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, many commentators heralded the beginning of her reign as the second Elizabethan age. The first one, of course, concerned the reign of Henry VIII s second surviving daughter and middle surviving child, Queen Elizabeth I, one of England s most famous and influential rulers. It was an age when the arts, commerce and trade flourished. It was the epoch of gallantry and great, enduring literature. It was also an age of wars and military conflicts in which men were the primary drivers and women often were pawns. Elizabeth I changed the rules of the game and indeed she herself was changed by the game. She was a female monarch of England, a kingdom that had unceremoniously broken with the Catholic Church, and the Vatican and the rest of Christendom was baying for her blood. She had had commercial and militaristic enemies galore. In the end, she helped change the entire structure of female leadership. Elizabeth was the last Tudor sovereign, the daughter of the cruel and magnificent King Henry VIII and a granddaughter of the Tudor House s founder, the shrewd Henry VII. Elizabeth, hailed as Good Queen Bess, Gloriana and The Virgin Queen to this day in the public firmament, would improve upon Henry VIII s successes and mitigate his failures, and despite her own failings would turn out to have the heart and stomach of a king, and a king of England too. Indeed, that was the phrase she would utter in describing herself while exhorting her troops to fight for England against the Spanish Armada). Elizabeth often has been featured in biographies that were more like hagiographies, glossing over her fits of temper, impatience and other frailties. It is fair to say, however, that she had also inherited her grandfather s political acumen and her father s magnificence, thus creating not just one of the most colourful courts in Europe but also one of the most effective governments in English history. It was an age of Christopher Marlowe s and William Shakespeare s flourishing creativity that still enhances English as well as comparative literature. Elizabeth was also patroness of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate, thereby promoting English settlement of foreign colonies. The Jamestown Settlement in Virginia would come in 1607, four years after Elizabeth s passing, and the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts would come in 1620. Elizabeth had also fought for her life time and time again in an era that was already unsafe for female leaders and she probably had remembered the searing feeling of realizing that her mother Queen Anne (Anne Boleyn) had been executed by her father arguably on a trumped-up charge. Danger was pervasive; strategy was needed not just to thrive but just to survive. Size: - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall.…

Full-Leather. Condizione: Very Good. (ii) (ii) 202 [4], half title, additional title (original card cover?) before the half title, 16 head/tail pieces and 24 plates (1 double, 2 coloured and one with images to front and rear), correct as listed, all tissue guarded with titles on the guards, some foxing throughout (mainly light), lovely full tree calf (some minor scratches and minor splash marks to rear cover), spine heavily gilt in compartments with five raised bands, red morocco label, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut, may cost more to ship than quoted by ABE.…

Leather. Condizione: Good. First edition. The first edition of this First edition. In a contemporary half crushed morocco binding, with cloth boards and raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Bound with half title. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, head and tail pieces, and twenty-four plates (two tinted, one double-page and one being a facsimile letter printed to recto and verso). Collated, complete. A well-versed biography of Queen Elizabeth I, interwoven largely with the history of England's affairs in which her life and reign is framed. Beginning with her youth, this work covers her complex relationship with Mary, Queen of Scots, the contenders for her hand in marriage, and her last years. Written by British historian, Anglican priest and bishop, Mandell Creighton. He was also the founding editor ofThe English Historical Review, the first English-languageacademic journal in its field. In these posts, he helped to establish history as an independent academic discipline in England. In a contemporary half crushed morocco binding, with cloth boards and raised bands. Externally, tail of rear joint is cracked, but holding. Rubbing to the extremities. Bookplate of one Alfred Talbot to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with scattered spots most concentrated to the front and rear of the work. Closed tear to tissue guard to frontispiece. Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Queen Elizabeth by The Right Rev. Mandell Creighton, D.D. Published by , 1896. Very good plus book. Vellum covered boards. Vellum is lightly soiled and scuffed overall, with several small stains, and puckered on front and back panels. 4to. 12 3/4" by 10 1/8". Upper edges gilt. Foxing and age-toning on side and lower eternal page edges. 199 numbered pages on thick paper. 39 engravings, most with red-labelled tissue-guards; a few are loose and two are missing. Pastel marbled end-papers. Two small scuffs on FFEP. Minimal internal foxing, primarily outermost edges of engravings and lightly in several text margins. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Elizabeth's life sketched as plainly as possible, with the necessary history drawn in when needed; and remarkable paintings and portraits of Elizabeth and her contemporaries which illuminate their characters. Ornate custom binding, half leather, raised bands on spine, gilt decoration, top edge gilt, long and foot deckled edges, 39 plates, 199 pages of text.; 10 1/2 x 13 ". …

First edition. Title in red and black. [2], ii, 199pp, [3], [201]-202pp, [2]. With a half-title, a frontispiece, a further 24 plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Finely bound by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in contemporary red straight-grain morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Original publisher's printed buff wrappers bound in. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Internally clean and crisp. The first edition, an exquisite production, sumptuously bound, of historian and sometime Bishop of London Mandell Creighton's (1843-1901) richly illustrated study of the reign of Elizabeth I. Size: Quarto.…