Williams librarian (3 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Edges of rear cover are very slightly browned. ; Approx. 7" wide by 8 7/8".

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Cheltenham: Printed for G.A Williams; S. Bettison, Duffield and Weller, E. Roberts, S.C. Harper, E. Matthews, and W. Porter; Bath: Meyler and Collings; London: Longman and Co. and G.B. Whittaker, n.d. [c.1830]. 210,[2]pp. Illustrated with tissue-guarded folding map frontispiece & nine plates (two of these folding. §Printed by J.J. Hadley, Minerva Press. §BL holds a similar version, but with a seemingly slightly differing pagination. Frontispiece & folding plates professionally laid down on canvas. Map following title dated 1824. Neatly rebound c.1880 in quarter calf, contrasting label, gilt lettering & decoration, top edge gilt, matching polished marbled boards & endpapers. Handsome monogram bookplate of one J.T.S. to front pastedown, along with Nottingham bookseller's ticket. Tipped on preliminary blank (1 cm. circular show-through from glue to verso) is a sheet of paper with hand-printed presentation inscription to the Cheltenham bookseller & sometime director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature Alan Hancox & his second wife Sheelagh from Roger Black(?). A few scattered leaves printed on inferior paper & showing slight browning. 2 cm. x 1 cm. paper repair to upper margin of one textual leaf, clear of text. A very good copy.…

1p., 16mo. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Reads: 'Dear Sir, | I got your last no. all right. I meant one particular day to pay you, and at the end of the day forgot whether I had or had not written to do so - coming to the erroneous conclusion that I had.' Postscript: 'No. 4 received and paid for also'. From the Ramsay papers.…