APOLOGIA DIFFIDENTIS by Leith, W. Compton

John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1908-01-01. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. London, 1908; white 3/4 leather boards with marbled cover; brown spine titles; boards soiled and discolored; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket; previous owner's name on front pastedown; pencil markings on front endpapers; pages toned. 212 pages.

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, gilt dulled on top edges, . owner bookplate on front free endpaper.. 1917. Third Edition. Hardcover. A decoratively bound volume of essays by W. Compton Leith, the pseudonym of Ormonde Maddock Dalton, British art historian and keeper of medieval antiquities at the British Museum. Handsomely bound in three-quarter white vellum stamped in gilt on spine with matching swirled marbled sides. Top edges gilt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 178 pages .

like new hc, 2nd ed, 1908

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: John Lane. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1917. Third Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled half vellum with marbled boards, TEG. Third edition. Slight foxing to boards/endpages, slight soil. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages .

London : John Lane, The Bodley Head ; New York : John Lane Company ; [Edinburgh : Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears], 1917., 1917. Very Good. 3rd ed. ; 186 pp. ; 20 cm. ; OCLC: 2994338 ; name on front ep ; ½ vellum with marbled boards ; top edges gilt ; untrimmed ; Dalton was "Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department at the British Museum, 1921-1928. Dalton was the son of a solicitor, Thomas Masters Dalton, and Emily Mansford. He attended Harrow School winning a scholarship to New College, Oxford, graduating in the "classical moderations" (Classical studies) in 1886 and in literae humaniores in 1888. Dalton made a grand tour after school, France, Germany, Austria, studying under Josef Strzygowski and India, and teaching for a year at the Abbotsholme School in Derbyshire, in 1884. The following year Dalton joined British Museum in the department of British and medieval antiquities ...Dalton's initial focus in ethnology migrated to archaeology and he set about writing… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London : John Lane ; New York : John Lane Co., 1917. Third Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong; 186 pages; Description: 186 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Bashfulness --Leith, W. Compton (1866-1945) --Apologia Diffidentis