Search Results: the abbot a by sir walter

Adam & Charles Black, 1886. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1886. Centenary Edition. 463 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Volume XI in the series. With illustrated frontispiece. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing, plus thumbing. Foxing intense towards the start and end of the book and on text block edges. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Slight gutter cracking. Text block edges are uneven. Boards have some edge wear, with slight bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are moderately crushed and rubbed. Slightly scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Slight water staining to front and rear. Book has a heavy forward lean. Gilt is bright.

Adam & Charles Black, 1897. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1897. No Edition Remarks. 453 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Slight cracking to gutters with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Markings to some pages. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining overall. Boards are slightly warped.

Marcus Ward, 1882. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1882. No Edition Noted. 422 pages. No dust jacket. Gilt decorated green cloth with black and white illustrated plates throughout and black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Front endpaper is missing and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and major tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and edge wear. Moderate bumping to corners and major crushing to spine ends. There is fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends.

A & C Black, 1891. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. this red cloth copy has a tight binding and clean unmarked pages...previous owners name on the FFEP....wear to the cover edges

Oxford University Press / Henry Frowde, 1910. . Hardback, no dustwrapper. Brown boards, with blind-stamped decorations and gilt embossed titles. With attractive frontispiece. With thirty-six illustrations. Contents: some light browning to endpapers, otherwise pages generally very good and clean. Illustrations crisp. Owner's name front endpaper. Boards: very good and clean. Gilt lettering dulled. 518 pp.

The Waverley Book Company Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 518 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier foxing to front and rear free endpapers. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Notable bumping to corners. Moderate crushing to spine ends. Light sunning to spine and edges. Water staining to rear board. Textblock is shaky.

London: Marcus Ward & Co, 1878. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. With Illustrations". From series "The Illustrated Waverley Novels". Edition and printing not known. In very good dark green bevel edged cloth boards, with blind stamped ruled and decorative edges on all sides, gilt circle to front with gilt male head; gilt titles to back strip. The covers are very clean, bright, firm and straight. The end papers are lightly foxed and tanned; name and address sticker to front paste down. Slightly age-toned cut edges; tinted brown top edge. The text block is in very good condition, tightly bound and clean except for the prelims and the end pages which are a little tanned.With many b/w illustrations and with attractive head pieces. Thought to be issued without dust jacket. Part of colllectable collection.

Soft leather bound with 36 illustrations and ribbon page marker. Leather spine is a bit worn at the edges. Binding is good. No markings, tears or folds.

Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co.. Reprint . Hardcover. Good. Four book set. Maroon boards. Previous owner's ink stamp inside front cover. Expedited or International shipping may cost more. Handling, wear to boards.

london: Maclaren and Company. Hardcover Red boards with Black decoration Of A knight In Armour very god for age some toning to edges a nice copy No Date Circa 1900. The Abbot being a sequel to the Monastry . Very Good. Decorative Cloth.

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Hardback. New.

Notes: PORTER & COATES, 1831. Hardcover. very good near fine.

LONDON: THE GRESHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. REPRINT . Decorated Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Gordon Browne. ND, circa 1900. The Holyrood edition. An attractive set in bluey green cloth with gilt motif to boards, and gilt spines. A little rubbed, with occasional nicks to tops of spines. Some foxing to prelims and edges, but not bad. Colour illustrations by Browne to frontis, and mono drawings within. Set stretches 106cm along shelf, 21cm tall, 14cm across boards. Really rather nice. This set comprises 1. Waverley; 2. Guy Mannering; 3. The Antiquary; 4. Rob Roy; 5. Old Mortality; 6. A Legend of Montrose. The Black Dwarf; 7. The Heart of Midlothian; 8. The Bride of Lammermoor; 9. Ivanhoe; 10. The Monastery; 11. The Abbot; 12. Kenilworth; 13. The Pirate; 14. The Fortunes of Nigel; 15. Peveril of the Peak; 16. Quentin Durward; 17. St. Ronan's Well; 18. Redgauntlet; 19. The Betrothed. The Highland widow; 20. The Talisman; 21. Woodstock; 22. The Fair Maid of Perth; 23. Anne of Geierstein ; 24. Count… Read More

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates / Caxton Press of Sherman & Co, 1885. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 1880s edition, 22 of 23 volumes (lacks Guy Mannering). Spines slightly faded, corners lightly rubbed, edges lightly soiled, ink name and date on front flyleaf of each volume. 1885 Half-Leather. Dark brown cloth, gilt titles and rules, brown endpapers. Engraved frontispieces. Includes advertisement and general preface to the Abbotsford edition, introduction to the Boston Sterling edition, and preface to the third edition. Titles include: Waverley or 'Tis Sixty Years Since; The Antiquary; Black Dwarf / Old Mortality; Rob Roy; Heart of Mid-Lothian [Midlothian]; Bride of Lammermoor / A Legend of Montrose; Ivanhoe; The Monastery; The Abbot: Being a Sequel to The Monastery; Kenilworth; The Pirate; The Fortunes of Nigel; Peveril of the Peak; Quentin Durward; St. Ronan's Well; Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century; The Betrothed: A Tale of the Crusaders / The Talisman: A Tale of the… Read More

EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, 1877. Hardcover. Good to Very Good/No Jacket. WAVERLEY NOVELS 48 VOLS COMPLETE by SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART pub by ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK; 1877; EDINBURGH; CLOTH BINDINGS; GOOD TO VERY GOOD 48 volume complete illustrated set 1877 - 1879. This is an unusual set, in the original purple / red boards with the publisher's original white printed paper labels to the spine. It's not common to see a complete set in the original format like this, since most copies were rebound with the original bindings discarded. There is some rubbing and marking to the boards, and the spines are occasionally sunned, but the joints are strong and the hinges aren't cracked. The pages are extremely bright white, and clean throughout. Each vol is 18cm high, 13cm across the boards. The set stretches 155cm along the shelf. There is mottling and marks to some boards, but overall, it's all there in the original format, and it's this that makes them so unusual. There are… Read More

, an attractively bound collection of the illustrated Waverley Novels, several are undated but all date from circa.1880, they each contain several plates and have vignettes throughout, half red calf leather and marbled paper with matching marbled block edges

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1871. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Various. A leather bound set of Walter Scott's popular historical novels. A leather bound set of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. The illustrated centenary edition of Scott's historical novels set in the medieval era, and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author's fascination with moments of transition is evident in this twenty five volume set, and the novels demonstrate his belief that very different societies move through the same stages as they develop. For nearly a century after their publication, the lawyer's novels continued to be read all across Europe. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of volume I, 'Captain J. Hardy Welsby, The Grange, Southport'. Welsby has also inscribed his name in ink to the front free endpaper, dated 1882. Welsby co-founded Hesketh golf club in Southport. There is another ink inscription to the top edge of the same page by 'Emma Herring', beneath which Coela Harrison and… Read More