Undated, third impression, illustrated with 32 tipped-in photographic portraits of authors being written about, 8vo, pp.viii, 327, charcoal cloth slightly worn, lacking top strip of spine, fore and bottom edges uncut and a little browned, one page roughly opened, a few internal hinges starting to crack, half-title and one blank page at end of book heavily browned but the remainder remarkably clean, bears bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. View More...
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London, PRINTED FOR GEORGE ROBERTSON, NUMBER 221 PICCADILLY : 1793
Seller ID: 002629
Eight volumes, engraved title page to each volume, [some also have a printed title page], rather browned internally, a little staining on the inner margins to three of the volumes, one signature loose in Volume 4, contemporary full tan calf, raised bands, morocco labels, rather dry, rubbed and scuffed, spines darkened. View More...
Very well illustrated, large horizontal quarto, pp 135, a very good copy in dustwrapper. Very well illustrated, large horizontal quarto, pp 135, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [Landscape historian Batey explores real and fictional settings of Austen's novels. In each chapter she uses a different Austen novel to discuss the style of gardens and landscapes during the early 19th century and Regency England. A continuing theme is the tension between Georgian propriety and the challenging Romantic ideals as they played out in the English landscape. Jane Austen was deeply inspired by the landscap... View More...
Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 228, paperback, a very brught clean copy throughout, virtually as new. [Includes illustrations from the collection of satirical and caricature images in the Museum of London, it encompasses research and uses historical and literary sources to place the satire of London in the context of English satire as a whole. Catalogue of an exhibition, Satirical London, held at the Museum of London, April-September 2006.] View More...
Illustrated with ten plates, octavo, pp xviii, 455, clean internally, black cloth slightly worn and bumped, binding leaning slightly, a small tear in the moddle of the spine. [From the library of the botanist Desmond Clarke, with his signature on the front endpaper.] View More...
Illustrated with 9 portraits, large octavo, pp xxiv, 318, very clean internally, grey cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped, otherwise this is a very good copy indeed. View More...
Frontispiece and three plates, octavo, pp xxviii, 652, extremely clean internally, black cloth, slightly faded, a slight bruise at the spine head. SCARCE. View More...
Thick 12mo, pp xl, 352, a little staining and spotting throughout, a signature on the front endpaper, original embossed cloth, rubbed and slightly worn, head and tail of spine worn, slight splitting to the joints. [The scarce first edition] View More...
Large 8vo, pp xii, 385, purple and black boards, very slightly faded, in a very slightly worn dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. [The first US edition, in the US dustwrapper priced at $27.95) View More...
Illustrated by the author, pp 182, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, neat contemporary signature on title page, endpapers browned, otherwise clean and tight internally, green cloth very slightly faded and worn, but really a good copy. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp on the front endpaper] View More...
Octavo, pp xii, 120, uncut and unopened, some foxing throughout, paperback, covers a little worn and browned. SCARCE. Presentation copy from the author to Professor W.L. Renwick. [In English. A Doctorate of Letters thesis for the University of Paris]. View More...
Illustrated, octavo, pp xvi, 400, seven relevant interesting newspaper cuttings have been fixed to the endpapers and the half-title, the sellotape used has become very brown), a signature on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean and sound internally, green cloth in very good condition, the spine very slightly faded. View More...
Small slim octavo, pp 189 (+ 3 page publisher's catalogues), edges untrimmed, endpapers a little marked and soiled, just a little age-toned internally but otherwise tight and sound, original pink boards, rubbed and marked, the spine dull, paper title label dull, joints worn but firm. VERY SCARCE. View More...
First edition. pp 275, a little light foxing, marginal mark to pages 148/149, otherwise very clean and tight, red cloth very slightly worn, the spine slightly faded and marked and a little bruised at the head. A good sound pleasing copy. [The imaginative use of language, imagination lyric and morality, visionary dreariness, Adam's dream, the failure of the ballad-makers, poetry dogma and the mystical.] View More...
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