Rev Edward Monro (13 results)

Condition: Fair. 1907. 543 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Hinges and guttering are cracked. Binding is loose. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Condition: Good. 1885. New Edition. 84 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with black lettering to spine and gilt to front. Black and white frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Tanning to spine and edges. Lettering is darkened slightly.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Without publisher's date or edition remarks but inscribed 1877. In this instance in blue blind stamped boards with gilt adornments to the spine. With a cracked hinge at the opening, foxing to the page edges and a few thumbing marks within. A fair copy for age.

Hardback. Condition: Good. 4.25 x 6.5; 88 pages; blue cloth, black title to spine with gilt title and black decorations to front and rear boards; a little bumped to edges, but otherwise very good tight copy;

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pictorial boards. Undated but pencilled inscription dated 1906. Endpapers are browned. A scarce title.

Burgundy soft-cover, linen binding, gilt embossed. Frontispiece. Contents: some smudging & light soiling in places, otherwise good. Tiny worm-holes to corners of last few pages. Contemporary ink inscription. Cover: some discolouration and rubbing, but remarkably intact. 84 pp.

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Posthumously published edition. 3 volumes bound together(First series). Pp.84/88/91/vi, 42(ads), b/w frontispiece, owners ink stamp (W.Eyre) to front free endpaper, occasional spotting throughout. Blue blind-stamped decorated boards, gilt title to spine. G+. **Rev. Edward Monro (1815-66). Curate of Harrow-on-Weald and Vicar of St John's, Leeds; author of various religious publications. 1852 He was Select Preacher to the University of Oxford. He was noted for his ability for preaching and for his work among the poor of his parishes.(Wiki).

New edn. Hardback. Olive calf boards with gilt armorial device of Grahamstown Public School and Minister's Prizeand gilt ruled frames to upper board, gilt decorated board edges and blind decorative inner dentelles. 5 raised bands to spine with gilt decorated compartments Green title label with gilt title, brown author label with gilt author title. Gilt ruled frames to lower board. Marbled endpapers. Tissue guarded engraved frontispiece. The Dark River: An Allegory. 84pp. The Vast Army; An Allegory. Engraved frontispiece. 88pp. The Combatants; An Allegory. Engraved frontispiece, 91pp. Minor rubs/bumps to board extrems, Prize label (dated 1892) to front pastedown, otherwise clean, bright and tight.

Cloth. No Jacket. New Edition. Hardback New and Cheaper Edition Bound in the publishers blue cloth with beautiful floral pictorial to the front spine and rear The binding is clean and bright and shows minimal wear with just minor discolouration to the rear All of the edges are gilt and still bright Previous owners inscription dated 1900 to the verso of the front free endpaper Heavy foxing to the frontispiece tissue guard and title page with the very occasional spot of foxing throughout otherwise the pages are very clean Illustrated with several full page plates in monochrome pp 543 Overall a beautiful copynbspnbsp. book.

HARD BACK BROWN. Condition: READING COPY ONLY. library discard, usual markings, front cover loose, pages foxed/browning, covers/corners rubbed, spine torn about 1/4" at bottom DATE PUBLISHED: 1858 EDITION: 152.

Hardback. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Hardback bound in marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine. Book has edge wear with rubs and wear on leather spine. Has a book plate inside front cover of the Sunday-School Library of the Church of the Messiah Pulaski, Tenn. Pages are intact with some foxing on the pages. Black and white illustrated frontis. 64 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Circa1850s publishing date. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). A slight volume containing very scarce early editions of two short allegorical works of fiction by Rev. Edward Monro. Two volumes are bound together, with individual pagination, and with each volume retaining its original title page and half title.The first work is the 1849 first edition of the allegory 'The Dark River', illustrated with a frontispiece. First published in 1845, this work is very scarce in early editions.The second work is an 1850 edition of the allegory 'The Vast Army', first published in 1847 and also very scarce in early editions.Two short allegorical works of fiction with a religious message by Anglican Rev. Edward A. Monro. Monro was curate of Harrow-on-Weald, and in1852 He was Select Preacher to the University of Oxford.In a signed binding by Fletcher of Norwich. In a half calf binding signed binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Light rubbing to back strip head and tail, front joint, and fore edge of front board, otherwise externally excellent. Loss of paper to head of front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.