Scott walter memoir (16 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First. 12mo. prize book plate (foxed) to ffep, paper hinge between reverse of htp & tp splitting. heavy wear to board edges with some nicks, top & base of spine rubbed. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. xliii, 560pp. In strong green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations (boards a little bruised at spine ends, mildly rounded on corners, very slightly cocked). Mark on lower text block edge. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean and tight. The Globe Edition of Scott's poetical works with a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 507 pages. 6 x 9 in. Frontis illustration with tissue. Bound in full light brown calf, gilt lettering on spine, 4 raised bands, edge of text block is marbled. Condition of the book is GOOD: Leather is split on rear side joint, but the inside hinge is sound, worn covers and spine. Some light foxing throughout, significant foxing to frontis illustration and tissue, this is the "World Edition".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good ++. No Dustjacket. Reprint. 620 pages. No dustjacket. Dark red background hardback binding with decorative gilt-colour and black with impressed intricate decoration to front board, similar to spine which is browned - with moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. No date but looks late Victorian date. All page edges gilt. Last few pages of catalogue are coming loose o/w pages clean and tidy. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good ++. No Dustjacket. The Grosvenor Poets Series. 620 pages. B&W full-page plates. No dustjacket. No date but looks late 19th century. Clean but age-dulled pale green hardback binding, spine a little darkened. Some wear with light fraying to spine-ends and boards' corners. Gilt-coloured decoration and lettering to spine and front board (three flowers to bottom left corner and interlace at top of front board). All page-edges gilt. Light spotting and browning to early and late pages o/w pages very clean. Illustrated By Thomas Seccombe (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Reprint . Reprint, 1902. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 632 pages. There is gilt on the spine and on the front cover. There are light marks on pages 304 and 305. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, slightly faded marks and a touch edge worn. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. xliii, 560pp. In strong green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations (boards a little rubbed and rounded at spine ends and corners, minor spotting on text block edges). Elaborately decorated prize presentation plate, indicating that the volume was once awarded to one Annie Jobson by the Sunday School Union in 1897, on the front paste down endpaper else internally neat, clean and tight. The Globe Edition of Scott's poetical works with a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave. Handsome volume. …

Condizione: Very Good. 31 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Here is "The Select Works of Tobias Smollett", being picaresque novels and various poems. Included is the "Memoir of Smollett" by Sir Walter Scott. The book is illustrated by George Cruikshank. It's a large single volume edition published by Stringer & Townsend in New York, circa 1853. Tobias Smollett (1721 - 1771, born in Scotland) was among the first few great English novelists. His marvelously complex episodic novels . picaresque adventures, really . were brilliant satires of British society. Comic and grotesque, perceptive and astute, hilarious and ribald, cruel yet sentimental, his novels shared a propensity for exaggerated plots filled with colorful characters who impede or help the hero, who seemingly stumbles through life and a series of hilarious and somewhat unlikely adventures. Each of these novels has much to reward the perceptive reader. The characters will live on in memory. Smollett, a Scot by birth, was a physician by trade, which gave him a peculiarly personal view of humanity, and a humanist at heart. He was for the underdog, and not averse to pointing out the foibles of wealth, fame and social class. Smollett was a great influence on Charles Dickens and many other subsequent novelists. This edition includes the "Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Author" by Sir Walter Scott. On the title page is stated "New Edition". The book has Illustrations by George Cruikshank. As well as a frontispiece portrait of Smollett, there are 15 full page engraved illustrations by Cruikshank. The book is undated, but was issued by Stringer & Townsend in New York circa 1855. CONTENTS : The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle The Adventure Of Ferdinand Count Fathom The Adventures Of Roderick Random The Adventures Of Sir Launcelot Greaves The Expedition Of Humphrey Clinker The History And Adventures Of An Atom Poems : The Tears of Scotland / Song / Burlesque Ode / Ode to Mirth / Ode to Sleep / Ode to Blue-Eyed Ann / Ode to Independence TITLE : Select Works of Tobias Smollett (Two Volumes in One). AUTHOR : Tobias Smollett (1721 - 1771). INCLUDES : A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Author by Sir Walter Scott. ILLUSTRATOR : George Cruikshank. IMPRINT : Stringer & Townsend. PLACE : 222 Broadway, New York. DATE : No date [ but 1853 as per contemporary advertising in other volumes ]. EDITION : Reprint (Publisher's statement : New Edition). DETAILS : Cloth-bound, hollow-back hardcover; Contains a frontispiece and 15 plate illustrations; size = approximately 5 1/2" x 9" x 2 1/4" (fat octavo); dark brown cloth with tile and decorative embellishments stamped in gold on spine; boards are treated with a series of cryptic decorations stamped in blind, around which extends a simple triple line border also stamped in blind; 973 pages; CONDITION - GOOD - This is a previously owned book that shows signs of use, but which remains clean and serviceable, with the following particulars noted: EXTERIOR - Clean with the following noted: the boards exhibit moderate surface rub and abrasion and as well have various small scattered spots ; corner tips are bumped with attendant splitting of cloth; spine extremities are compressed and frayed; the cloth over the joints is split, front and rear; text-block edges are age-toned and display foxing and various small spots and smudges, but are basically clean. BINDING - Well read volume and a bit shaken -- the text-block sits a bit laxly in the case, although no leaves are detached or loose. INTERIOR - Clean and presentable with the following noted: Light foxing throughout; plate leaves are much darkened (a result of the ink's chemical action on the paper used, which is a different paper from that used for the text- and possibly an offset effect from removed tissue guards) ; else there are scattered small signs of use, such as small smudges, spots, etc - a few leaf tip creases or dog ears . a couple of production-related corner folds - else adequately preserved. George Cruickshank (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. No Jacket. First Thus. A reading/binding copy of the 12mo trade hardcover. No dust jacket. 'Poor' condition grade because the lower board is detached. Still, the contents (xxiii + 432 pp.), with illustrations from original designs, appear free of markings and otherwise fully legible, complete, and without any loose or shaken pages. There is a small bookseller label on the yellow front paste-down, and the pages are ever so lightly age tanned with an occasional touch of foxing. Green covers with dull gilt lettering and elaborate decoration on the spine, elaborate stamped decoration on the boards. The spine covering is attached only at the front hinge and has erosion in the head and tail edges. The boards have rubbed and/or bumped corners and edges, with the lower corner of the upper board being well-bumped/rubbed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Three Volumes, 1857 Dates On Title Pages. Full Polished Calf, Spines Elaborately Gilt, 5 Bands, Morocco Title And Volume Labels, All Edges Marbled With Very Nicely Marbled Matching Endpapers, Very Bright And Clean. Slight Wear, Small Fray At Top Edge Of Spine Of Volume Iii. No Marks.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near fine in original green cloth-covered boards with gildt decoration. Wear on the lower rear corner and previous name in pencil. Text clean and bright.

Hardback, cloth. Condizione: Good-. No Jacket. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti, Illustrated by Thomas Secombe. Hardback, undated but circa 1877 and contains gift inscription dated 1878, published by E. Moxon, Son, & Company, London, xx + 620 pages. Octavo/8vo, measures around 4 7/8" by 7 1/4" by 1 3/8". Blue cloth binding, blind-stamped with black and gold stamping to front board and spine. A little marking and scuffing to binding but quite clean for age and colouring still quite vivid. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and on hinges. Slightly bumped corners. Slackness to binding with inner hinges cracked and netting exposed but textblock firm, aside from the front free endpaper which is partially detached at the base and the little guard paper placed between frontispiece and pre-title page illustration which is fully detached. Page edges gilded, with scuffing and a little marking. Some foxing to preliminary and hindmost pages, gif inscription on half-title page. The odd bit of marking to page surfaces and occasional foxing but otherwise clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information. xx + 620 pp. Circa 1877. Thomas Secombe (illustratore). …

Full-Leather. Condizione: Good. First Thus. Complete in two (2) volumes, uniformly bound in full original calf, with horizontal gilt bands on spine panels. Vol. I: The History of Tom Jones; Vol. II: The History of Joseph Andrews, Amelia, and The Life of Jonathan Wild. Leather shows surface rubbing/scutting, with some scaling to spine panel of Vol. I, title labels lacking. Firm bindings, contents generally clean and showing the expected mild foxing/tanning. 424 + 450 pp., Vol. I w/ engraved frontis. portrait of the author. A relatively early American edition of Fielding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: near Very Good binding. Sold as a 2 volume set. Previous owner's name written on ffep of both volumes. No pencil or ink markings in text of either volume. Some pages in both volumes are un-cut. Green embossed cloth bindings. Both volumes slightly cocked. Tears at head of spines of both volumes. Moderate edgewear to boards of both volumes. near Very Good binding.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Contemporary calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt-stamped lettering in black leather spine labels; complete set of 2 volumes, large 8vo; pp. 424, plus frontispiece portrait; 456. Bindings dust-smudged and scuffed. Contents foxed, but clean and unmarked. A nice working set. A scarce Philadelphia imprint.…