Clement Edmonds (9 results)

8vo Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. 309p. White pages are unmarked. Brown covers are glossy with lightly bumped corners and minor edge wear. Binding is tight, spine remains uncreased.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Julian Brazleton (illustrator). Literary Classics Edition xiv, 655 p. illus. (facsim) 17 cm. LCCN 43051076 OCLC 944648 LC PS507 .W64 Dewey 810.82 ; grey-green boards with blue designs and lettering, in color dustjacket ; Contents: [1.] American fiction. The devil and Daniel Webster/ Stephen Vincent Bene?t -- Tom Whipple / Walter D. Edmonds -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- Missionary journeys / Willa Cather -- The duke and the daupin come aboard / Mark Twain -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- A preacher goes to war / John W. Thomason, Jr -- Uncle Remus / Joel Chandler Harris -- A last will / Williston Fish -- One arrowhead day / Harry Leon Wilson -- The skylight room / O. Henry -- Rupe Collins / Booth Tarkington -- Our new telephone / Ruth Gordon -- Some like them cold / Ring Lardner -- At the end of the car line / Ben Hur Lampman -- The Japanese / Ogden Nash -- Fifty grand / Ernest Hemingway -- The waltz / Dorothy Parker -- You mean common / Arthur Kober -- Address Unknown / Kressman Taylor. -- [2.] American verse. -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Death and General Putnam / Arthur Guiterman -- Home, Sweet Home / John Howard Payne -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Nancy Hanks / Rosemary Bene?t -- Ethiopia saluting the colors / Walt Whitman -- As toilsome I wandered Virginia's woods / Walt Whitman -- Little boy blue / Eugene Field -- The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- American laughter / Kenneth Allan Robinson -- Plain language from truthful James / Bret Harte -- Little Willie / Eugene Field -- The mystery of Gilgal / John Hay -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- The old man and Jim / James Whitcomb Riley -- John L. Sullivan, the strong boy of Boston / Vachel Lindsay -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger -- my sweet old etcetera / e. e. cummings -- Two-volume novel / Dorothy Parker -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- The maid-servant at the inn / Dorothy Parker -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Lament / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Early moon / Carl Sandburg -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Shenandoah Road / E.B. White -- Aged four / Mildred Focht -- Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- To fight aloud is very brave / Emily Dickinson -- Song in exile / Alice Duer Miller -- Scum o' the earth / Robert Haven Schauffler -- My city / James Weldon Johnson -- Farewell, my friends / Clarence Day. -- [3.] American fact. -- The declaration of independence -- A letter from Franklin to Washington -- Under a cloud of sail / Richard Henry Dana -- Where I lived and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau -- The hunting camp / Francis Parkman -- The only one / Maude Barnes Miller -- The death of John Quincy Adams / Carl Sandburg -- For us, the living / Alexander Woollcott -- The second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Confederate army / John W. Thomason, Jr -- The first G.A.R. parade / Lloyd Lewis -- Three speeches / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr -- The Trawnbeighs / Charles M. Flandrau -- Thanksgiving proclamation / Wilbur L. Cross -- Mary White / William Allen White -- A wedding notice from the Fountain inn tribune / Robert Quillen -- A letter from Nicola Sacco to his son -- Mon pays / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Coon hunt / E.B. White --A visit to London / Frank Sullivan -- The turtle / Ogden Nash -- The Norse travel again / W.L. White -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A talk to young men / Robert C. Benchley -- P.S. he got the job / Anonymous -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier ; FINE/VG. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIFTH EDITION. 1 vol., folio, 12-15/16" x 8-1/8", (xxiii)332(iv) pages, 15 plates, several folding, including engraved frontispiece by F. H. Van. Houe, complete,  bound in contemporary full speckled calf over cords, recently rebacked,  internally clean and bright, overall a VERY GOOD copy.  Wing C200 Originally published in Latin in 1469, combines stories of Caesar's wars with the Celtic and German peoples in Gaul, and Caesar's war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Roman Senate. The first edition of this English translation by Clement Edmonds was published in 1600.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The Commentaries of C. Julius Caesar, Of his Wars in Gallia; and the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey. Translated into English; With many Excellent and Judicious Observations Thereupon. As also the Art of our Modern Training, or Tactick Practice. Whereunto is adjoyned the Eighth Commentary of the Wars in Gallia; with some short Observations upon it. Together with the Life of Cĉsar, and an Account of his Medals; Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. Clement Edmonds. Published by n the Savoy: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgatestreet., 1677 Folio. A very fine copy bound in a full dark paneled calf spine with raised bands lovely by the Green Dragon Bindery with new hubs tight and fresh copy priced thus Description: [44], 332, [8], p., [14] leaves of plates ([9] double) : ill., port. Title-page printed in red and black. With frontis. portrait (leaf pi1v) of Julius Caesar signed: F.H. van. Houe fec. Illustrated with engraved plates depicting Caesar's battles, encampments and medals. Woodcut headpieces and initials; printed marginalia. "Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries, of the civil wars betwixt him and Pompey." and "A continuation of the wars in Gallia. ESTC, R16632. Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C200.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fourth Edition. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, recornered, with original spine laid down. Front board detached, included. Title page detached, laid in. Additional engraved title page plus 14 plates, some double paged. Some repair to first few leaves. [xii], xxxviii, 196, 142, 10 pp. ; quarto.

Leather bound. Condition: Near fine. Published in 1677, a later edition of Clement Edmonds' English translation of The Commentaries of C. Julius Caesar, decorated with illustrated plates. (illustrator). Later Edition. Small folio, [48], 1-332pp. Measures 8.5" x 13". Bound in modern brown calf, title in gilt on spine. New endpapers. Solid text block, light toning along edges of leaves, a few short tears to corners. A very clean, near fine example. Two bookplates of previous owners affixed to front endpaper. Includes 13 full-page plates, some as fold-outs, and a copper-engraved frontispiece of Julius Caesar by Van Howe. (ESTC R16632) (Wing C199, C200) (Cockle 71). This piece, originally published in Latin in 1469, combines stories of Caesar's wars with the Celtic and German peoples in Gaul, and Caesar's war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Roman Senate. The first edition of this English translation by Clement Edmonds was released in 1600. (Cockle 71) Full Title: The Commentaries of C. Julius Caesar, Of his Wars in Gallia; And the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey. Translated into English; With many Excellent and Judicious Observations thereupon. As also the Art of our Modern Training, or Tactick Practice. By Clement Edmonds Esquire, Remembrancer of the City of London. Whereunto is adjoyned the Eighth Commentary of the Wars in Gallia; with some short Observations upon it. Together with the Life of Caesar, And an Account of his Medals; Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. Full Collation available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Description: [44], 332, [8], p., [14] leaves of plates ([9] double) : ill., port. ; fol. Signatures: pi⁷ b-e⁴ f² B-2T⁴ 2U² *⁴ Title-page printed in red and black. With frontis. portrait (leaf pi1v) of Julius Caesar signed: F.H. van. Houe fec. Illustrated with engraved plates depicting Caesar's battles, encampments and medals. Woodcut headpieces and initials; printed marginalia. "Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries, of the civil wars betwixt him and Pompey." and "A continuation of the wars in Gallia," each have a separate title-page, dated 1676, on leaves Bb2 recto and Rr4 recto, respectively. Publisher's advertisements on *4. In contemporary blind-panelled calf, re-cornered and re-backed using later lettering-piece. A very good, clean copy of this popular text. Armorial bookplate of Christopher Tower, Weald Hall to front paste-down. ESTC, R16632. Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), C200.

, [42], 332 pages, three separate title pages but continuous pagination, contents at the rear, life of Caesar at the front, printed in double colomns, 15 plates including engraved frontispiece by F. H. Van. Houe and 8 folding plates Fifth Edition , boards rubbed and scuffed, title label at little worn, hinges reinforced, few pages with small edge tears, some marking to pages, book in good condition , calf boards, with later calf spine, gilt titles on spine label, raised bands Quarto, 32 x 20 cm Hardback ISBN:

Condition: Very Good. Half calf. Five raised bands. Marbled boards. Boards detached; binding separated at p. 50; wear all around; lacking frontispiece. Occasional scholia. Full page plates on recto only; some reinforced at verso edges; one with losses at gutter (request images). xl;196;142;10 pp.