Croly Rev G (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Floral embossed green boards Hardcover, gold lettering and decoration on brown spine. Not ex. library. 306 rough cut pages, plus advert pages, illustrated with a tissue guarded drawing of Pope, frontispiece drawing of Popes villa at Twickenham, and tissue guarded drawing of, "The Peer now spreads the Glittering Forfex wide". Owner's simple bookplate on front pastedown. Two inch split on spine hinge, corner wear. Contents clean, binding tight. The Rev. G. Croly, LL.D. was rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Floral embossed green boards Hardcover, gold lettering and decoration on brown spine. Not ex. library. 344 rough cut pages, plus advert pages at the front of the book, illustrated with a tissue guarded frontispiece drawing of a fishing scene in Windsor Forest. Toning on front endpapers, light corner wear. Owner's simple bookplate on front pastedown. Contents clean, tight and bright. The Rev. G. Croly, LL.D. was rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and title vignette. Four volumes. 8vo. [180 x 115 x 95 mm]. Bound in contemporary cloth, the boards blocked in blind with a triple fillet border, corner pieces and a large ornamental centre piece. The spine divided into five compartments, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, pale yellow endleaves. (Spines slightly toned, extremities lightly bumped). Light foxing to the title pages and frontispieces, otherwise very clean. Overall in very good condition. Bookplates of John Porter and Johnathan Rashleigh to the front paste downs. Edited by George Croly (1780-1860), Irish poet, novelist, historian and Anglican priest who served as rector of St Stephen Walbrook from 1835 until his death.…

1st edition extracted from The Review. Large 8vo. 218 to 272pp ( 55 pages ). Begins top of page & finishes bottom of page. Binders marks along inside edge where extracted from bound volume ( could be trimmed ). Clean & tight. VG.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A.J. Valpy, 1835, First Edition, 16mo, 4 volumes. Book set bound in a full calf brown leather, gilt ruled borders on boards. Black leather title and volume label with gilt decoration on spine. Each volume has a frontis and illustration at front of each volume. Some darker spots on leather else set very good to very good+ condition. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.…

Publisher's Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 4 volumes, sm. 8vo. Original patterned cloth, with gilt title / decoration on the spine. Frontispiece and title page vignette in all four volumes, plus a portrait of Pope. Minor foxing to prelims and very minor rubbing to the bindings. A very good set Small 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Small 8vos. Later full divinity calf style bindings, marbled endpapers. Spines gilt in six compartments, red leather labels. Small book label of Henry Southern. An attractive set with engraved title pages, engraved vignettes. Includes a memoir of the author and notes on each poem by Rev. G. Croly. Spines a bit faded, but still an attractive, charming set.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A collection of the poems of Alexander Pope, scarce in its entirety. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and title page to each volume (collated, complete). With a memoir of the author, notes, and critical notices of each poem, from G. Croly. George Croly (August 17, 1780 November 24, 1860) was an Irish poet, novelist, historian, and divine. He wrote poems, dramas, satires, novels, history, and theological works, and attained some measure of success in all. Complete in four volumes. In half-calf bindings. Externally, smart, though rubbed, with some marks. Internally, generally firmly bound, although frontispiece of volume I detached due to strained joint. News articles tipped onto pastedowns. Pages are bright, and generally clean, though with some instances of foxing. Copperplate ink inscription to the verso of the final page of volume IV. Very Good. None (illustrator). book. …

First edition. 8vo. ( 189mm. ) Pp. [5] vi [1] viii [3] xii - xx, [1] 2 - 52. Plates [21]. With a Half-title. Uncut . The plates, which are very finely executed, are occasionally lightly spotted. Foredges browned. Original paper backed boards lightly soiled, corners bumped, board edges showing some shelf wear, sometime paper reback, retaining the original printed paper label which is rubbed and chipped. Presentation in ink on the recto of the front endpaper. Richard Dagley ( ???? - 1841 ) , subject painter and engraver was an orphan, he was educated at Christ's Hospital. Exhibited sixty pictures at the Royal Academy 1785 - 1833 ; he illustrated the elder D' Israeli's " Flim-flams".…

Full Calf. Condition: Near Fine. A full green calf binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 12mo. 17 by 11 cm. Steel engraved frontis and half-title illustrations in each volume. Condition: spines sunned to brown, along with one and a half of the boards. Slight rubbing along joints, and light shelfwear besides. Clean inside.…