Search Results: Authors starting with B from MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP

(c.1840). . 8vo., pp.200, half red morocco, gilt, maroon cloth boards; lacks title page and last page of tables, paper repairs to lower corners of Dedication page and first leaf of Preface, Dedication page plus lower corners of first few leaves with surface soiling, foxing to fore-edges, with occasional foxing and light surface soil throughout, light wear to extremities of leather, o/w very good. [The Dedication page is to Colby, suggesting an early printing, probably the third or fourth edition.]

Kobenhavn/Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2005. . 12mo., pp.363 + publisher’s adverts, paperback; owner’s annotations to second page of ‘Contents’, undulation to fore-edges of pp.325 onwards (including fore-edge of rear wrapper), light curling to wrappers, a good+ copy.

London: J.B. Bateman, 1862. . 12mo., pp.(vi),108, textured brown cloth, lettered in gilt to front board; light foxing/toning to prelims, slight sunning to spine, a very good, fresh copy.

London: published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2018. . 8vo., pp.xxxii,307, navy cloth, gilt; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, publisher’s barcode sticker to rear board, fine, fresh copy. No dust-jacket.

Coblenz and Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1873. . Fifth edition, revised and augmented, 12mo., pp.xlii,290, red cloth, gilt, colour and b/w maps; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light wear to extremities, paper cracking (stitching visible) at front inner hinge, a clean and good+ copy.

Leipzig: Verlag von Karl Baedeker, 1887. . Ninth edition, pocket 8vo., pp.viii,332, red cloth, gilt, marbled edges, folding frontispiece Railway map of England and Wales, folding map of London loose, further maps and plans; small ownership inscription (dated 1910) to front free endpaper, closed tear to frontispiece, small chips to edges of frontispiece and loose map, light wear to extremities (especially at headband), light roll to spine, internally fresh, a good+ copy.

Nairn: ‘Telegraph’ Office, 1904. . 8vo., pp.xviii,194, uncut, textured teal cloth, gilt, two b/w frontispieces (tissue guard between); ownership autograph to half title, some foxing to edges and prelims, rubbing to extremities, light roll to spine, a very good copy.

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1996. . 8vo., pp.xi,177, red hardcover lettered in silver, printed label to front board; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, light shelfwear, very good. No dust-jacket, as issued.

Leeds, Martin Bairstow, 2001. . 8vo.,pp. 104, paperback; a very good copy.

New Castle, Oak Knoll Press, 2000. . Large 8vo.,pp.xxv,332, blue cloth, gilt; b/w illustrations and frontispiece, fine, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.

Ashgate, 2004. . 8vo., pp.xviii,413, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and figures; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is a little creased to upper edge.

Princeton University Press, 1970. . Two volumes, 8vo., pp.xvi,343;xi,287, mustard cloth lettered in brown, b/w frontispiece to Volume I; from the library of D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to both front free endpapers, foxing to top edges, a very good set, in very good price-clipped dust-jackets, which are lightly rubbed and chipped to edges.

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1936. . 8vo., pp.xi,315, navy cloth, gilt; foxing/toning to edges, a good, clean copy, without dust-jacket.

London: The Bishopsgate Press, 1935. . First edition, 8vo., pp.80, blue cloth, gilt, 14 b/w plates; neat ink ownership autograph to prelim blank, foxing to endpapers and prelims, foxing to top-edges and occasionally to upper margins throughout, rubbing to extremities, with light sunning to spine and margins of boards, spotting to upper margin of front board, a good+ copy.

London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908. . 8vo., pp.xvi,348,(8)adverts, green cloth, gilt, b/w plates and figures, including folding plate; front free endpaper cropped, with owner’s handwritten catalogue number to half title, upper corner of front board bumped, else very good.

Chichester: Phillimore, 2009. . 8vo., pp.xiv,98, red hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; fine, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.

London: Macmillan, 1989. . First edition, 8vo., pp.198, black hardcover, gilt; author’s presentation inscription to half title and title pages, slight mark to lower margin of front board, else fresh and near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.

London: Macmillan, 1988. . First edition, 8vo., pp.309, blue hardcover, gilt; author’s presentation inscription to title, a little rubbing to head and foot of spine, else fresh and very good indeed. in vg complete and unclipped dust-jacket.

Manchester: Privately published, and printed by Wilcock and Norbury, 1853. . 4to., unpaginated, comprises 48 engraved plates with accompanying text, contemporary half brown calf with brown moire cloth boards, gilt-lettered to front board, unlettered spine with gilt-ruled compartments, additional frontispiece portrait of author, with tissue guard; neat ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, front free endpaper, frontispiece and tissue guard have vertical crease (production fault), foxing and toning to prelims, with some light foxing - especially to margins - throughout, partial sunning and light marking to cloth, rubbing and light wear to extremities, a good(+) copy. Contains two different plates numbered ‘IV’, and no plate ‘XXXIII’ - believed complete; The British Library copy also has 48 plates as does the only other copy we have found once offered for sale. Banks designed and built the Grand Twin Geometrical staircase in the Crystal Palace, London, for the Great… Read More

Uckfield, The Naval & Military Press, . Facsimile reprint of the 1923 edition, 8vo., pp.ix,474, paperback, 14 colour plates, b/w maps; creasing to margin of p.309, a very good copy.