elegant extracts useful entertaining passages von percival james (7 Ergebnisse)

Full Leather. Zustand: Poor. Volume I only, missing covers, spine leather mostly missing, light foxing with browning to page edges, internally good. Good reading copy. Title continued "Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons. Originally Compiled by the Rev. Vicesimus Knox. A New Edition Embellished With Elegant Engravings. Prepared by James G. Percival. In Six Volumes. Vol. I. - Prose.".

Portfolio. Zustand: Good Minus. Later Printing. Volume II only. Original leather binding. Heavy cover wear. 80% of spine missing. Early owner signature inside and on front cover.Hinges cracked, but boards securely attached with binding cords. Last book signature sprung, but still attached. Moderate foxing on first few and last few pages. Minor damp staining in margins. Text has light foxing, mainly in margins. 408 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. New edition. Embellished with elegant engravings. Volume five only. Full leather with gilt decoration on spine. Owner's decorative bookplate on front pastedown as well as a small bookstore label, pages foxed, spine chipped with partial title loss, thus good only.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Volumes 1-4 of a 6 volume set. Bound in full leather, covers show moderate wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, chipping from red rot. Signature of former owner in the prelims. Pages show heavy foxing, text is intact.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Boston: Samuel Walker, 1826. Published 1826. Volume IV only, containing letters by or between noted people of the time including Dr. Johnson, William Cowper, Horace Walpole, Lord Byron, Ben Franklin, George Washington, others. Three quarter dark brown leather over marbled boards, wide raised spine bands tooled in gilt, dual black spine labels, three engraved frontis plates plus additional engraved title page. Spine worn but attractive, joints cracked but resecured, hinges internally reinforced with old clear tape that has yellowed a little but not badly, endpapers foxed, some lighter foxing to engravings, pages clean, name of New Hampshire artist Dorothy G. Blodgett 1951 at lower edge of front free endpaper, no other markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

LeatherBound. Zustand: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1826 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 413 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 413.