151 pages, with leaf of adverts and frontispiece at front, and 16 paged and one leaf not paged of ads at rear. No stated date of publication. Seller's stamp of Buckley & Allen, Halifax NS at foot of title page. Fair only: spine panel mostly perished, textblock split at pages 2, 48, and 64, heavy foxing to early and late leaves, light foxing elsewhere. 6.5 x 4.2 pages. View More...
Title continues: "In Fifteen Numbers, Revised and Improved." This is Number 9: Ladies' Book, fine hand, sentences. Each of the 24 pages fully inscribed, with the moral sentiment at head copied on 14 lines below, e.g.: "Fashion invades our pleasures and interrupts our employments." No stated date of issue (1870s?). Re-sewn to style; deft repair to wrapper near fold; tideline to first leaf. 6.5 x 8 inches. View More...
viii, 385 pages, with two leaves of ads at rear. Lacking frontispiece. Spine professionally mended; front free endpaper replaced using old paper. Occasional pencil line to margin. Binding is sound. 6.5 x 4.2 inches. View More...
xl, [2], 1139, [12], 32 pages, with the 12 coloured plated as called for. No specified date of issue; this New Edition first issued 1869; this copy with an 1875 signature. Spine panel with loss; spotting to textblock edges and occasionally within - especially to the plates and facing leaf. Two gatherings slightly loose and proud; one of these lacks a leaf and has one leaf detached, soiled, and with loss. Rear free endpaper with 2.75 x 1 inch chip. A fair example in original binding. 7.3 x 5 inches. View More...
x, 410 pages. 6.75 x 4.1 inches. First edition. Rebound with leather spine, marbled paper over boards, and new endpapers. Leaves toned - title page particularly so. Binding is sound. Title continues: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, and page, both in octavo and twelves, in the respective histories. To which are subjoined, two letters from the editor of those works: the one, in answer to a lady who was solicitous for an additional volume to the History of Sir Charles Grandison. The other, in reply to a gentleman, who had objected to Sir Charles's offer'd compromise in... View More...
v, [1], 79 pages. Attractively rebound in quarter leather, marbled boards; new endpapers. "Every attempt to abolish duelling has been, and ever will be, inefectual; the only method therefore is to point out each abuse, and to ward off, as much as possible, every evil consequence attending it: any endeavour to promote an amendment or alteration for the better, is of more utility than continuing to lament the alarming effects of this or any other custom" [Preface]. Title page and last two leaves grubby. Shallow chip to upper margin of 75 and 77, and larger chip to 79 with loss of a bracket and f... View More...
vi, [7]-238, [2] pages. Good only: cocked; cloth splitting along rear joint; soiling to covers; foxing and stains within. Textblock and hinges sound. Ads at rear for Wells' New Physiognomy and How To Read Character. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. View More...
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