Booth Rev John (9 results)

Various (illustrator). The North American Review Vol. 217 No. 4 April 1923.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In very good++ condition. Tiny bumpimg to corners & spine ends. Small po inscription on endpaper. A very clean, bright tight copy. Language: eng.

pp. xxiv, 215, 16 of adverts. Small 8vo. Original cloth with gilt decoration. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Longmans, Green and Co 1965. Binding firm. Pages clean and bright, no markings. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 6" x 4.5". xxiv + 215pp + 16pp publishers catalogue. POS on half title. Very good hardback in publishers original blind and gilt stamped brown cloth.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 352pp. Cover, red and embossed with a woven design, trimmed with gilt, is worn about the edges and the spine is faded with tiny breaks in the fabric at the lower edge. Hinges have been repaired by applying white tape to dark brown end papers. Most of the epigrams are of the satirical-humorous-witty mode; do you recall this one from the monumental epigrams? "I laid my wife beneath this stone, For her repose and for my own." (loc x131/1).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Near fine in beveled bright gilt decorated boards. Chip to bottom corner or half title. No former owner marks. 215 pages plus 16 page catalog in rear. With a 13 page preface in the history of epitaphs and list of authors of the inscriptions, used to encapsulate a life at it's end, as baby naming books served at the beginning.

Full Leather. Condition: Near Fine. 17 x 11 cm. 16mo. xvi 352pp, errata slip bound-in. Beautifully bound in red leather with gilt letteirng and embellishments. Signed binding, Root & Son / Charles E. Lauriat Co, Boston. 5 raised bands to spine, marble endpapers. There is a "shadow" of a bookplate to the front blank endpapers.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A lovely six volume set of nineteenth century collections of epitaphs and epigrams. A fantastic six volume set of nineteenth century epitaphs and epigrams.An epitaph is a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone. An Epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, sometimes surprising or satirical statement.In their original green and brown cloth bindings.Including:1878 Epitaphs of the Catacombs or Christian Inscriptions in Rome During the First Four CenturiesThe first edition of the work, written by Rev. J. Spencer Northcote. An account of the epitaphs of the catacombs of Rome, which are ancient, underground burial placesof which there are at least forty, some rediscovered since 1578, others even as late as the 1950s.1878 Antiente Epitaphes (From A.D. 1250 to A.D. 1800)The first edition of the work, written by Thomas F. Ravenshaw. Collected and set forth in chronological order. With a folding frontispiece.1897 English Epigrams and EpitaphsThe first edition of the work, selected by Aubrey Stewart. Illustrated with a frontispiece.[1876] Epitaphs: Quaint, Curious, and Elegant; With Remarks on the Obsequies of Various NationsCompiled and collated by Henry James Loaring. Undated, dated from University of Cambridge Libraries. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and engraved title page.1869 A Collection of Curious and Interesting EpitaphsCopied from the monument of distinguished and noted characters in the ancient church and burial grounds of Saint Pancras, Middlesex. The first edition of the work, written by Frederick Teague Cansick. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and three plates. Collated, complete.1868 Metrical Epitaphs, Ancient and ModernThe first edition of the work, edited by the Rev. John Booth. In publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, smart. Shelf wear to extremities. Large pencil inscription to front paste down of English Epigrams and Epitaphs, with age toning to endpapers. Light rubbing to joints and offsetting to endpapers of A Collection of Curious and Interesting Epitaphs. Small mark to rear board, bookplate to front paste down, with hinges very strained to Metrical Epitaphs, most significant to the front hinge. Internally, mostly firmly bound. Binding of Metrical Epitaphs is fragile, but in place. Pages are bright and clean with light spotting to Epitaphs of the Catacombs. Very Good. book.