C E Doble Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Cruikshank W Turner Stothard Hornsey Mulready (illustrator). Very fine book in full dark blue morocco leather with gilt outline to covers and bright gilt college escutheon and motto to front; spine with six bays, one with gilt titles and five with a small geometric gilt centrepiece and also the date 1909 to the lowest; bands margined with gilt lines. Internally fine; presentation plate and date 1929 to paste down [which may be the date of the binding]; all edges gilt. A most handsome copy of these famous works in lovely condition and with some fine illustrations.

First Edition. Printed for the oxford Historical Society - Selections from the diaries/ papers of the historian and researcher covering the period from 1705 -1712. With the ownership inscription to the fep of the Rev. H.P. Alford of Woodley Salterton Vicarage. Some scuffs and marks to the blue cloth covers and some wear to the spine ends, and some light handling marks throughout but an attractive set. VG-.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart collection of first edition volumes from the Oxford Historical Society. Ten volumes. First edition or first thus. From the Oxford Historical Society. This set contains: Letters of Richard Radcliffe and John James of Queen's College Oxford 1755-1783, 1888. Providing a fascinating insight into eighteenth century university life at Oxford through this collection of letters between clergymen Richard Radcliffe and John James of Queens College, written between 1755 and 1783, with additions, notes, and appendices. Includes a folding plate to the front of the text. Edited by Margaret Evans. Reminiscences of Oxford by Oxford Men 1559-1850, 1892. A collection a short sketches on life at Oxford University from men such as Sir Thomas Bodley, William Laud, John Evelyn, William Shenstone, and John Taylor Coleridge. Selected and edited by Lilian M. Quiller Couch, a British author. Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, 1885-1921. Eight volumes of eleven, including volumes I, II, IV, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XI. With a folding frontispiece to volume IV. A detailed record of the remarks and personal collections of Thomas Hearne, an English diarist and prolific antiquary, particularly remembered for his published editions of many medieval English chronicles and other important historical texts. With records dating from 1705 to 1735. Edited by C. E. Doble and D. W. Rannie. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine of the odd volume. Hartley Institute label to the front board of Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne volume I. Hinges starting but firm to Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, volume II. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the first and last few pages. Age toning to the endpapers with contemporary ink inscription and previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Hartley Institute punch-through stamp to the title page of Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne volume I. An ink stamp to the half-title of volume IV. Very Good. book.