Ritson editor (29 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 2nd Impression. -------------Dark cloth covers, a thick book, 8" tall. 498 pages, with long multi-fold-out chart. Exlibrary book with bookplate inside cover and remains of little spine label---------- GOOD CONDITION, solid tight clean text, inner seams little weak only, edgewear covers.- - - No dust…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Wrapper is price clipped, chipped and rubbed, with a thin small open tear to the top of the front of the wrapper and a slightly larger one up to the publisher at the heel of the spine. Boards lightly marked. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Clean throughout. Goo…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good plus. first edition. Lectures on The Law Department, Passenger Department, Railroad Advertising, Suburban Passenger Service, Car Construction, Ballast, Railroad Signaling, and many others. 498 pages with appendix and index, plus three foldouts of yard diagrams. Bound in original dark green cloth…

Original Red Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Third Edition. 73; (vi), 71pp. (including glossary). 1 of 275 small paper copies (there were also 75 on large paper). Apart from offsetting to endpapers internally a clean and attractive copy. Covers soiled, rubbed and lightly worn at head and tail of spine. Very slight damp marking to…

Full-Leather. Condizione: Very Good. 3 volumes, 1793-4, xvi 350; xiii 370; viii 334 [1], half titles, contemporary tree calf with gilt edges, rubbed and corners worn, joints cracking, corners bumped, spine lettering worn, marbled endpapers, slight damp staining (mostly marginal & mainly vol 2), printed by C Clarke, 8vo (11.5x19c…

Three-Quarter Leather. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. No Edition Noted. Black cloth binding with black leather corners and spine. Gold colored print on spine. Tips and spine ends worn and some of leather rubbed away. Chipping on spine and cover edges. Rear cover/spine craked at spine,; interior hinge paper split but rear cover sti…

Small 12mo, pp xii, lxxiv, 240, title vignette and occasional text decorations, uncut in original boards, the paper of the spine chipped in several places, internally sound and clean, FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, dated 1823 rather than 1820 on the title page of this popular collection of ballads based upon Ritson's much fuller a…

Green Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No dj. Second Edition. Two volume set in plain dark green cloth with paper typewriter written spine labels, now faded and age darkened. Text blocks sound and tight, cracking in gutter to dark-coated endpapers of volume I, volume II gutters tight. General foxing freckles to the pages, mainly ne…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Illus., 6.5 x 4", half vellum with gilt dec spine, marbled boards, page edges and endpapers, 319, 319. Covers rubbed, chipped, marbled paper lacks small pieces on the front and a larger piece of Volume 2, vellum soiled, light edgewear, bookplate (D.W. Stidolph) front inner hinge and textblock of…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. 2 vols: cxix, [1], 289p; [2], 262, [4]p. Edited, with a historical essay and notes by J. Ritson. Vol. 1 incorrectly titled 'Scotish song', with the incorrect publication date of 1714. Library bindings, worn along spine margins. De-accessioned from Kingston-upon-Hull public l…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near fine. Second Edition. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 587 pp. Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) was an interesting and, even for his day, unusual man. Described by the DNB as an "antiquarian"; at the age of 20, upon reading the "Fable of the Bees" he decided to "forswear all animal foods, and to subsist…

THREE QUARTER LEATHER. Condizione: GOOD+. *FIRST EDITION*. VOLUME I: 1793, VOLUME II: 1794, VOLUME III: 1794. THREE QUARTER GREEN LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS. BRIGHT CRISP GOLD GILT LETTERING AND 5 RAISED BANDS WITH GOLD GILT DECORATION ON THE SPINE. GOLD GILT TOP EDGE. MARBLED ENDPAGES. MANY PAGES UNCUT. EDGES AND BOARDS RUBBED…

Two volumes, 12mo in sixes, pp. [ii], cxix, [i], 289; [ii], 262, [4] corrections; illustrated with wood-engraved vignettes (by Parker after Stothard) and woodcut music throughout; in contemporary calf, spines gilt (a bit rubbed, labels missing, but sound); marbled endpapers. First edition. A major collection of early Scottish po…

Two volumes, 8vo, pp. [iv], cxviii, [ii], 167; [vi], 220, [4] corrections and additional notes; a good copy in early full calf, rebacked preserving the original spines (now chipped and worn). First edition. Like all of Ritson's works of poetical antiquarianism, a genuine contribution to early English poetical knowledge. This is…

"The public is here presented with a selection of English poetry, in a chronological series, from the beginning of the sixteenth century (or, including an extract from Chaucer, from the latter part of the fourteenth) to the present time, upon a plan hitherto unattempted, at least in this country. It will not be thought possible…

London: Printed by A. Strahan, 1811. Scarce English Treatise on Bailiffs Ritson, J[oseph] [1752-1803]. [Frank, Joseph, Editor]. The Office of Bailiff of a Liberty. London: Printed by A. Strahan, 1811. [xv], 80 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-1/2"). Recent period-style three-quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Moderate toni…

London, 1811. Only edition. Scarce English Treatise on Bailiffs Ritson, J[oseph] [1752-1803]. [Frank, Joseph, Editor]. The Office of Bailiff of a Liberty. London: Printed by A. Strahan, 1811. [xv], 80 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, deckle…

First Edition. Scarce English Treatise on Bailiffs in a Handsome Riviere Binding Ritson, J[oseph] [1752-1803]. [Frank, Joseph, Editor]. The Office of Bailiff of a Liberty. London: Printed by A. Strahan, 1811. [xv], 80 pp. Octavo (9" x 5-1/2"; 22.9 x 14 cm). Later nineteenth-century straight-grain morocco signed binding by Rivier…