B S Capp (24 results)

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Jacket is worn along edges. Fingerprint smudges, scuff marks, and two worn spots on jacket front cover, covering some text but not affecting legibility. Jacket back cover has some lighter smudges and scuff marks as well, also not affecting legibility. Back jacket flap and back endpaper are creased. Spine is lightly bumped and slightly shaken, but binding is secure. Inside is clean and unmarked. …

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Hardcover super octavo (VG+) d/w (VG+) with plastic cover; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good (+). First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly foxed boards, front end paper missing, foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with rub to spine and nicks to top of spine. 325pp. This study places the movement in the context of the rise of millenarian thought (the belief in a coming fundamental and transformative change to society) in Europe from the Reformation and its rapid spread in England during the Civil Wars. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.75 x 5.75 inches.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. From an academic library with the usual stamps etc.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 452 p., [4] leaves of plates. 1 vol.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 452 pages, (8) pages of plates : facsimiles, portraits ; 23cm. Subjects: Almanacs -- English -- History. Astrology. 1 Kg.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 452 pages, (8) pages of plates : facsimiles, portraits ; 23cm. Subjects: Almanacs -- English -- History. Astrology. 1 Kg.…

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. 315pp. Name stamp to front free endpaper, else fine, clean & sound condition / near fine dust jacket.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, 452 pp, plates, ills. An "excellent study" according to John Feather in A Dictionary of Book History. From the blurb: "Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed form of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold at a rate of 400,000 copies a year. They were read by many people who read little else, and the works of Shakespeare and Jonson, among others, have numerous references to them. Dr. Capp's fascinating book is the first to study their history in depth. It is full of vivid detail, and shows clearly how relevant they were to almost every aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, political. As well as being a powerful force in revolutionary times, they played a central part in spreading scientific progress and medical learning, and in the development of popular journalism and printing. Possessing some of the characteristics of both pocket encyclopaedia and sermon, they conveyed information and/or moral commentary on such diverse topics as attitudes to rich and poor, agriculture, gardening, weights and measures, food, drink, sex, sleep, dress, bodily cleanliness, games, fairs, holidays, the weather, the state of the roads, posts, freemasonry, omens, witchcraft, will-making and even the sale of wives - in addition to making dramatic astrological prophecies about the likelihood of plague, famine and war in the year ahead. Not least, they provided people with calendars and, in time, diaries too. With its long, systematic bibliography down to 1700, its biographical notes on all compilers (nearly 400 of them) and its meticulously thorough coverage of the whole subject, Astrology and the Popular Press is a book that will be read with enjoyment and profit - and continue to be referred to - for years to come." Page edges agetoned, otherwise Very Good in a sunned dustwrapper.…

Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, 452 pp, plates, ills. An "excellent study" according to John Feather in A Dictionary of Book History. From the blurb: "Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed form of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold at a rate of 400,000 copies a year. They were read by many people who read little else, and the works of Shakespeare and Jonson, among others, have numerous references to them. Dr. Capp's fascinating book is the first to study their history in depth. It is full of vivid detail, and shows clearly how relevant they were to almost every aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, political. As well as being a powerful force in revolutionary times, they played a central part in spreading scientific progress and medical learning, and in the development of popular journalism and printing. Possessing some of the characteristics of both pocket encyclopaedia and sermon, they conveyed information and/or moral commentary on such diverse topics as attitudes to rich and poor, agriculture, gardening, weights and measures, food, drink, sex, sleep, dress, bodily cleanliness, games, fairs, holidays, the weather, the state of the roads, posts, freemasonry, omens, witchcraft, will-making and even the sale of wives - in addition to making dramatic astrological prophecies about the likelihood of plague, famine and war in the year ahead. Not least, they provided people with calendars and, in time, diaries too. With its long, systematic bibliography down to 1700, its biographical notes on all compilers (nearly 400 of them) and its meticulously thorough coverage of the whole subject, Astrology and the Popular Press is a book that will be read with enjoyment and profit - and continue to be referred to - for years to come." Finein a dustwrapper which is slightly sunned around the spine and spotted at the top edge of the inside flaps but otherwise Very Good.…

The Fifth Monarchy Men: A Study in 17th Century English Millenarianism. FandF. - 1972. dw. 315pp. Ex. lib. Scarce.

Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, 452 pp, plates, ills. An "excellent study" according to John Feather in A Dictionary of Book History. From the blurb: "Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed form of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold at a rate of 400,000 copies a year. They were read by many people who read little else, and the works of Shakespeare and Jonson, among others, have numerous references to them. Dr. Capp's fascinating book is the first to study their history in depth. It is full of vivid detail, and shows clearly how relevant they were to almost every aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, political. As well as being a powerful force in revolutionary times, they played a central part in spreading scientific progress and medical learning, and in the development of popular journalism and printing. Possessing some of the characteristics of both pocket encyclopaedia and sermon, they conveyed information and/or moral commentary on such diverse topics as attitudes to rich and poor, agriculture, gardening, weights and measures, food, drink, sex, sleep, dress, bodily cleanliness, games, fairs, holidays, the weather, the state of the roads, posts, freemasonry, omens, witchcraft, will-making and even the sale of wives - in addition to making dramatic astrological prophecies about the likelihood of plague, famine and war in the year ahead. Not least, they provided people with calendars and, in time, diaries too. With its long, systematic bibliography down to 1700, its biographical notes on all compilers (nearly 400 of them) and its meticulously thorough coverage of the whole subject, Astrology and the Popular Press is a book that will be read with enjoyment and profit - and continue to be referred to - for years to come." Very Good in slightly sunned dustwrapper which has one chip to the rear panel.…