Synge 1897 (2 Ergebnisse)

First printing of this Atlantic Monthly Press edition (with publisher's requisite statement on copyright page; originally published 1956). xii, 189 pages. Hardcover: H 30.75cm x L 23.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed slightly bumped at edges; front flap is not price-clipped. Blue cloth; slight bumping to boards' top fore-edge corners; some flaking loss to spine's otherwise bright gilt stamping. Impression of removed paper clip at top margins of pages 97-102; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. Features "Note to the New Edition;" "Foreword" by S. Dillon Ripley; "Introduction" by Handasyde Buchanan; "The Romance of the Flower Book" by Sacheverell Sitwell; "The Illustrators of the Great Flower Books" by Wilfrid Blunt; "The Notes;" "An Introduction to the Bibliography" by Patrick M. Synge; "The Bibliography" by W.T. Stearn, Sabine Wilson, and Handasyde Buchanan; "List of the Plates" by Elizabeth Braun; "Appendix to the New Edition" by Handasyde Buchanan; Index. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0871132842.…

8vo. 838-840 pp. Self-wraps. FINE. Synge was an Irish mathematician and physicist who studied at Trinity College, Dublin before taking appointments at Toronto, Princeton & Brown universities. He worked extensively at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (where he was Senior Professor in the School of Theoretical Physics), and was greatly lauded by his peers for his research.…