J c williams london (3 risultati)

paper-covered boards. 8vo. paper-covered boards. large fold-out map frontispiece, xlviii, 420 pages. Ad codices MSS. recensuit, textum, scholiasten, et versionem plurimis in locis castigavit, notis insuper illustravit, Ricardus Mounteney . Præfiguntur observationes in commentarios vulgo` Ulpianeos [signed: J. C., i.e. John Chapman, D.D., Archdeacon of Sudbury], et tabula antiquæ Græciæ Demostheni accommodata. Adjicitur etiam index locupletissimus. Editio duodecima emendatior et auctior. [Comprising Olynthiacs i-iii and Philippics i. With the [GREEK] of Libanius.] MS. notes. Later edition (first edition was 1806). Spine and hinges heavily chipped, boards with light soiling. Ownership inscription in ink on the front board and front pastedown. Else a near fine copy. Demosthenes (illustratore).…

8vo, pp. viii, 368; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, blue printed label on spine; label defective with loss of three letters, spine worn and cracked, edges rubbed and worn, upper joint cracked; the textblock is clean and the sewing structure is sound. Bookplate of Charles Gower Boyles and ownership signature of Edward Hawker, both on the front pastedown. While there is no internal evidence, this looks to be a lending library copy, with a dozen or so names in manuscript (some difficult to read) on the upper board, together with dates, presumably dates of check-up and/or return. An Eton periodical, printed on wove paper and a collational nightmare but apparently complete minus a final leaf of ads. The gatherings E through G are also in a different state than that of another copy on hand, possibly due to a second run through the press to provide issues that hadgone out of print prior to the collection. Later issues show stab holes in the gutter, suggesting they were remainders of the run in periodical form. Nos. XXVIII and XXIX have no title page (as issued). Text comprises the original 34 numbers of The Miniature: Monday, April 23, 1804-Monday, April 1, 1805. "The second periodical work which issued from the college of Eton: the joint production of Dr. Rennell, Mr. Knight, Mr. Canning, and the sons of the Marquis of Wellesley" (Lowndes). The first was The Microcosm, 1778. Stratford Canning was the working editor.…

8vo, pp. viii, 368, [2], plus two leaves outside of pagination inserted; original salmon boards with green shelfback, original printed paper label, textblock untrimmed; boards faded and toned, light edgewear, corners bumped, one leaf with a closed tear repaired with tape; very good. Early ownership inscription of "A. Wilkinson / Houghton le Spring / Durham" and the later bookplate of Anne and F. G. Renier. An Eton periodical, printed on wove paper and a collational nightmare but apparently complete, though gathering 2H has been bound inside 2I. Stab holes in the gutter suggest that the books was produced by gathering remainders of individual issues. Nos. XXVIII and XXIX have no title page (as issued). Text comprises the original 34 numbers of The Miniature: Monday, April 23, 1804-Monday, April 1, 1805. "The second periodical work which issued from the college of Eton: the joint production of Dr. Rennell, Mr. Knight, Mr. Canning, and the sons of the Marquis of Wellesley" (Lowndes). The first was The Microcosm, 1778. Stratford Canning was the working editor.…