C Mayle Sydney (9 results)

Soft cover. 19.5cm, 36p., on rag paper, colour decorated grey wraps, some foxing, some slight cover fading, very good copy (s1.box). A Victorian collection of uncommon Christmas verse including selections from Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Martin Luther, Walter Scott, Robert Southey and George Macdonald.

Paperback. Printed pages: 36. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue card wraps with fading to edges and slight wear to rear cover. A few spots of foxing to page edge, clean text throughout. Scarce poetry collection from the Priory Press. Includes a slip of paper advertising three further booklets soon to be published by the press. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 4.25 x 7.75 inches (11 x 19.5 cm).…

Paperback. Printed pages: 36. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue card wraps with light creasing and some fading to edges. A few light spots of foxing otherwise very clean throughout. Scarce poetry collection from the Priory Press. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 4.25 x 7.5 inches (11 x 19 cm).…

1st edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Thomas J. Barratt. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 143 pp., plates : illustrations ; 28 cm. Subjects; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Travel. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Thomas J. Barratt. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 166, [8] pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm. Subjects; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Travel. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Thomas J. Barratt. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 143 pp., plates : illustrations ; 28 cm. Subjects; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Travel. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Thomas J. Barratt. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 166, [8] pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm. Subjects; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. Travel. 1 Kg. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. W Blue printed wraps lettered and illustrated in blue and red. pp 36. No. 2 in the series 'Priory Press Booklets.' Very slight soiling otherwise VG.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Four consecutive volumes of the illustrated periodical 'The Hampstead Annual', published between 1897 and 1900. Four volumes of this charming annual, edited by Ernest Rhys, Grenville E. Matheson, and Sydney C. Mayle.Articles in these volumes include short stories, poetry, and biography, and include 'On the Jewish Day of Atonement' by Annie Matheson, 'A Plea for Old Books' by John Dennis, and 'Joanna Baillie' by Canon Ainger.Present here are:The 1897 annual, illustrated with fifteen plates; the 1898 annual, with ten plates; the 1899 annual, with eighteen plates and vignette illustrations; the 1900 annual, with twenty plates and vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.With the publisher's original front and rear wraps bound in to the later three volumes.With advertisements to the rear of each volume. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip heads and tails, with paper spine labels age toned and with minor losses to perimeters. Front hinge of 1898 volume strained to head, but firmly held. Internally, three volumes firmly bound, but with binding of final volume significantly strained to the start of the work. Pages a touch age toned due to paper type, but otherwise clean and bright. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…