Davies Henry Rees (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 32pp booklet in soft covers. Good. Guaranteed condition. No markings.

ppxiii 342. very good condition hardback in the original red cloth binding. [ [please see our storefront page for shipping information] based on forty years of research, a scholarly and comprehensive history of the north Wales ferries, drawn from official records and other documents, from the middle ages to the early 20th century.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Near fine copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. Spine of dust-wrapper sunned o/w a nice clean copy.

Board of Celtic Studies, University of Wales History and Law Series, No. VIII. xiii+342pp. VG, clean copy; minor spotting to upper edge.

Board of Celtic Studies, University of Wales History and Law Series, No. VIII. xiii+342pp. Extremely good, clean copy in VG dw., slightly frayed along upper perimeter.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. VG+, 1st ed, 1942. In red cloth, gilt titles, corners rubbed. Spine, edges bumped, title in gilt. lacks the dust jacket. Internally, half title, [6], (vii-xiii), [1], [1], 2-342 pp, some light spotting to blanks & text block fore edge, ink name to fep (Foulkes Jones). A Very Good copy. (155*246 mm).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edges of text block speckled. The dw is worn the book is not.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Tall octavo, 342 pages, index. A little damage to the bottom of the spine and covers unevenly faded, internally VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Book is in very good condition, though the old style, paper dust jacket is well worn - it now has a protective plastic cover. Boards still in good condition, with gilt titling, some bumping to the bottom of the spine. Inscription to FEP, unclipped. Foxed edging, but bright and clean pages. 1942, 342pp. …

First edition. DW. xiii. 342pp. Index at rear. Red cloth. gilt. Head and tail of spine crumpled. Outer edges slightly foxed. Wrapper spine very slightly sunned and slightly rubbed. Edges sl. worn and creased, esp. at head and tail of spine o/w VG+/VG+ Board of Celtic Studies, University of Wales, History and Law Series No. VIII. …

6 vols, modern green cloth, gilt spine-titles, all edges marbled, 4to. xi, [1], 766, [2], + [8], 871 + 1071 + 932 + 756 + [8], 461 pp and unpaginated index of approximately [258 ]pp. A sturdily-bound set with an interesting and strong association to the founders of Christian Socialism. The text is Henry Ellis's reconstruction of the unexpurgated 1587 second (revised and enlarged) edition, which was the edition used by Shakespeare for many of his plays. From the Oxford Handbook to Holinshed's Chronicles: "the Chronicles were at once the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography and the principal source for contemporary playwrights and poets, above all Shakespeare, Spenser, and Daniel. " From the publisher's 'Advertisement': "From the introduction - ".it has been a Law with the Publishers, not to alter a single Letter, but to print the Work with the utmost Fidelity from the best preceding Edition, with the Author's own Orthography, and with his marginal Notes. The only Liberty taken, has been to use the Types of the present Day, instead of the old English Letter of the Time of Elizabeth." Volume I has a presentation leaf bound in bearing a manuscript inscription to 'Revd Fred[eric]k D. Maurice' on the occasion of his second marriage, (July 1849) with 18 signatures below. This presentee is John Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872), Anglican theologian, one of the founders of Christian Socialism and co-founder and first principal of the Working Men's College, now 'Europe's oldest extant centre for adult education'. The signatories comprise most of the other founders and earliest supporters of Christian Socialism, including such names as John Malcolm [Forbes] Ludlow, Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown's Schooldays) and Charles Kingsley (author of The Water-Babies). Library stamps of the Working Mens College in each volume on lower edges of text block, and typically about 5 pages, a number stamped on each title-page, minor wear to edges and joints, contents mildly agetoned with just a few leaves being substantially darkened, scattered foxing, overall a Good set.…