Scudder horace e series editor (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Used: Acceptable. 1891 reprint of 1888 edition. Fair ex-college library copy in yellow-brown pebbled cloth. Rebacked spine. Frayed extremities, split hinges, a couple preliminary pages loose including 8" x 7" folded map (fragile) with a couple edge chips. American Commonwealth series.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good or Better. No Dust Jacket. 524+pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly rubbed w/ wear to corners and spine ends. Top edge gilt. Inner hinges starting. Previous owner's name in pencil on front blank endpaper; bookseller's small label on rear paste-down. Illust. w/ a folding map at front.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original brown cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled w/ light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Top edges gilt. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Includes a fold-out color map in the front of Volume 1.…

"Cambridge Edition" (as stated upon spine and title page) - this being a complete edition of Burns' poems but still issued as a single volume within a larger poetry set. [i-ii], [frontispiece portrait], [pictorial title leaf], iii-lxvi, 1-397, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 15.25cm. Half-leather binding - leather spine and marbled paper boards with leather corners; spine decorated with five slightly raised bands with gilt lettered maroon title label and brown edition label; gilt tooling to the remaining four compartments. Some scuffing to spine with surface abrasion near head; boards' leather corners worn. Gilt top edge. Deckle fore-edge; some toning/foxing to fore-edge and bottom edge. Marbled endpapers (matching the boards' marbling). Some leaves with slight foxing/soiling at margins; group of leaves towards book's center have creased/curled top fore-edge corners with one leaf corner detached at fold-line. Binding is firm. Double-column text. Still a handsome edition of Burns' poetry. …

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Cambridge Edition of the Poets. Presumed first edition, (with no subsequent information to copyright page, such as seen on other issues of the series.) Hard cover, 8vo, in an unsigned contemporary deluxe binding of full tree calf, the boards ruled with a band of opposing triangular forms in gilt, the spine with five raised bands, compartments with neoclassical motifs of central floral vignettes, matching scrolled corner decorations, two title labels laid on in red and outlined by a shark tooth pattern. All edges gilt, marbled end papers, gilt rolled turn-ins. Shilling rolled board edges and endcaps. Tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of the English Victorian Poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) with her facsimile signature. Title page illustrated with engraving of the Casa Guidi, Florence, home of the poet and her husband poet Robert Browning after their marriage in 1846. xviii, 548pp. Complete in one volume. **CONDITION: Near Fine with the merest of rubbing to tips and bottom edge shelfwear. Gilt remains bright. Red silk bookmark is intact. Pages are unworn and un-foxed. Book is sound, with no markings. A beautiful copy, with editor's biographical sketch and brief introductory annotations to the poems, including some of EBB's best-loved verses: Aurora Leigh, Casa Guidi Windows, The Cry of the Children, Rhyme of the Duchess May, Juvenalia, Poems before Congress, Last Poems, Ode on a Portrait of Wordsworth by B.R. Haydon, Prometheus Bound, Psyche and Venus, Seraphim and Other Poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese and a number of the poet's translations. The Appendix also includes the explicatory "Notes and Illustrations." Watson 436. (AMJ). Book.…