Briscoe John Potter Ed (16 results)

Condition: Fair. 1884. No Edition Remarks. 155 pages. Quarter bound red leather with red cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and illustrations have medium tanning and light foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions and stamp to front free endpapers. Severe cracking to hinges causing boards to be loose. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with chipping to leather to spine. Staining to both boards.…

Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. Tan leather binding with blind stamped decoration. All edges gilt. A little light foxing to endpapers, otherwise excellent. Portrait frontis with tissue guard. An attractive late Victorian pocket volume, in excellent condition. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 3 x 5 inches (7.5 x 13 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xx,148.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Xvi + 151pp, illustrated, folded sheet entitled The Shepherd's Race set in at front. Bound in original grey dec cloth covers; Octavo.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket.

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Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 172. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1883 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 172.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A lovely first edition and very scarce copy of Millhouse's songs and sonnets, in a decorative cloth binding. A first edition and very scarce copy of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board. All edges gilt. Library stamp to the verso of the title page. Illustrated with a frontispiece and a headpiece for each poem. Robert Millhouse (17881839) was an English Spenserian poet, who obtained some fame as a provincial poet, though his own life was affected by his serial marriages, ill-health and poverty. This collection of Millhouse's songs and sonnets includes his better-known poems 'To Sherwood Forest' and 'Song of the Patriot', and a brief biography of the poet by the editor John Potter Briscoe. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart, with a little bumping to the extremities and the rear board, and wear to the head of the spine. Front hinge is a little tender, but remains reasonably firm. Page 45/46 is coming loose, but otherwise volume is firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Front free end paper is somewhat abraded. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…