Search Results: Biography from Bristow and Garland

T. Cadell, London, 1795. Volumes 1,2, & 3. Engraved plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), pages: 280; 378:(1); 399 plus substantial unpaginated appendix & index, also 24-page additions and corrections to volumes 1 & 2. Contemporary tan calf with a rather strange choice of vellum reback, lettered in blind. The upper cover of vol.3 replaced with stout card. Armorial bookplate. The front free endpapers of volumes 1 & 3 inscribed ""From Mr. Seward".

A Nadder Book. Elment Books, Longmead, Shaftesbury, 1987. First edition. Numerous illustrations. 4to (10 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches), 240-pages. Original cloth. A little light foxing to prelims else excellent in very good dust jacket which has some some foxing to the reverse

Melbourne University Press, onwards from 1966. Published 1966-1991. 12 volumes plus index volume; 13 volumes in all. Large 8vo, original cloth; a very good set in dustwrappers; some dustwrapper backstrips mottled, a few small nicks. With loosely inserted corrigendas. Extremely heavy; extra postage will apply, please enquire.

London: Longman, Green, 1838. Frontispiece. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches), 853-pages printed in double column. Contemporary half brown calf, marbled boards. Spine decorated in gilt on raised bands and blocked in blind in compartments, with burgundy lettering piece. Prelims foxed. Overall very good.

London: Isaac Pitman, 1893. First edition. 8vo, (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 442-pages, original green cloth; a little marked otherwise very good. Half-title inscribed "Rev. Proffesor Earle with kind regards Nov. 1892" - most likely by the author as Prof. Earle has 6 references in the index.

London: T. Werner Laurie, 1925. 3rd edition. Plates with facing verse throughout. 4to (10 x 7 3/4 inches), unpaginated. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards printed in brown. 2 1/2 inch tear into one leaf without loss, a little light foxing; the binding very clean.

Frank Cass, London, 1967. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 409-pages. Original burgundy cloth. Small mark on upper cover else excellent.

Bernard Tauhnitz, Leipzig, 1899. 3 volumes in 1. Two portraits. Stout 8vo (6 1/2 x 5 inches), pages: 288:285:294:16 (Publisher's advertisements). Contemporary grained black calf lettered and ruled in gilt. Very good. An uncommon edition.

Privately Printed. 1904. Plates with tissue guards. 2 volumes 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 inches), pages: 281 & 414. Original orange grained cloth, uncut. Printed paper label to backstrips foxed. Overall very good. Weight 1.876 kg thus extra overses shipping will be requested.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1984. 3rd impression. Plates. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 181-pages. Oiginal cloth. Very good in the very good dust jacket. Please excuse the reflection in the photograph.

University Press of New England, Hanover, 1976. First edition. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 467-pages. Original cloth. Very good in slightly edge won dust jacket.

Longmans, Green, London, 1880. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches). Contemporary full tan calf, sides ruled in gilt and blind. Spine gilt in compartments with double black lettering pieces, all edges marbled. Armorial bookplate. Extremities a little rubbed, overall very good & attractive.

Macmillan, London, 1928. Later Life published 1930. First editions. Portraits. 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 inches), pages: 327 & 286:(2), original green cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Spine gilt dulled, front free endpaper of vol.2 removed and half-title tanned. Overall very good.

John Murray, London, 1995. First edition. Plates. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 234-pages, original cloth; excellent in very good dust jacket.

[Privately Printed] 1992. Plates. 8vo ( 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 66-pages. Original blue cloth; narrow band of light fading to upper cover else excellent. Inscribed by the author.

Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, 1898. Portrait. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), 224-pages. Contemporary full tan prize calf, decorative gilt rule to sides, spine gilt in compartments, black lettering piece. The arms of Wesley College, Sheffield, in gilt on upper cover; prize label on front pastedown. Very good.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1955. First edition. Portrait, plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 251-pages. Original plum cloth; spine gilt dulled else very good.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1897. 49th edition. Portrait, . 8vo (7 1/4 x 5 inches), 348-pages. Contemporary full burgundy calf, sides with decorative gilt border, upper cover blocked in gilt "The Grange School, Eastbourne". Spine gilt in compartments and gilt lettered direct. A "Holiday Task Prize" inscription dated 1898 on verso of front free endpaper. Spine a little dulled.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1941. First edition. Portrait. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 278-pages, original cloth in dust jacket. Text tanned, cloth foxed, jacket soiled and with considerable loss.

Toucan Press, Guernsey, 1967. First edition. Illustrations. Small 8vo (7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches), original wrappers. Very good.