Bede Cuthbert Rev Edward Bradley (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good++. Illustrated by the Author (illustrator). [8], 390pp, [1], bound in green cloth, with binding and hinges tight. Embossed ownership on the front free endpaper, name scratched out on the half title page, covers show edge wear, outer cover hinges starting.

First Edition. First edition in the original green cloth with gilt titles. Volume 2 [of 2] 358pp, coloured frontispiece and coloured geological map of Kintryre. VG.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Three volumes bound as one. Original gilt decorated dark blue cloth. With numerous illustrations, designed and drawn on the wood by the author. 123rd thousand with 6 pages of publisher's ads at the rear. No date, circa 1870's?

Original Cloth Respined. Condition: Very Good. Many Author Drawings (illustrator). Blackwood Undated ? First Edition. Crown, original green cloth, respined professionally with original laid down, no date but C19 ?1860s? and an early Blackwood edition with the same pagination as very early editions, vi + 118 + 108 + 112 pp., three separate adventures in one volume; v. sl. incipient foxing, but o/w vg. This amusing and profusely illustrated tale of an Oxford Victorian undergraduate is formally fiction [by a Durhm Univ graduate!] but is plainly spoof autobiographical. An interesting picture of Victorian life at Oxford, if not based also on Durham. Originally published in 1853. Case blindblocked with mortar board blocked with title on front; spine a bit faded with title & bowing figure blocked. Orig green eps. Size: Crown.

Condition: Good. Frontis + Pictorial Titlepage + text illlustrations by Edward Bradley Three parts in One volume. Octavo half leather on 4 raised bands. Spine with gilt red title to spine plum pebbled cloth sides (hinges and corners rubbed/spine gilt rubbed). Frontis + Titlepage + vi +112pp +108pp +112pp Name to fly leaf, somewhat cropped to top edge. Endpapers and last page slightly foxed. Some signs of use but no loose pages, no ripped pages, and over 80 marvelous illustrations, playing billiards, punting, and fencing. *Humorous Oxford undergraduate at (fictional) Brasenface College. Here paginated in three parts only LATER editions are through paginated. 1 volume. Hardcover.

pp. iv, 118; viii, 108; iv, 112. With half-title and frontispiece to part II and text woodcuts throughout. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine edges and boards rubbed, otherwise a good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Three titles bound together in one volume; 5 in. x 7 1/8 in., [i]-iv, [1]-118 pp.; [i]-viii (including frontispiece), [1]-108 pp.; [i]-iv, [1]-112 pp. + [4]pp. publisher's catalogue. Illustrated with wood-engravings. Bound in full, brown polished calf with five raised bands on the spine, dark green leather title label, with gilt titling, decorative gilt designs in compartments, gilt borders to covers and cover edges; marbled paper endpapers, all edges gilt, headbands present. Owner's name and gift inscription in ink on first front flyleaf: John S. Ames Jr. Christmas 1927 From Mother. Some wear to leather at the top end of the spine, rubbing to lower spine end, cover corners; some age-related tanning, light tan-spotting to title-pages; page margins. An unsigned, but high-quality, gift type leather bookbinding produced in the 1900-25 period.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 volumes bound together, xxviii +71pp, xiv + 358 + [2], 2 maps handcoloured, 1 folding [repaired], illustrated with 7 chrolomolithographic plates, [of 8] lacking frontis plate of Glenbarr Abbey, also 61 woodcut illustraions [8 on plates, rest in text, smartly bound in recent maroon cloth, new endpapers, few page corners sl turned over. Scarce item; Octavo.