Ed David Vaisey (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. A brilliant exemplar of the Folio Society edition of Thomas Turner's recounting of village life in England as an important shop-keeper. Marbled paper over boards, blue buckram cloth-backed, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering over burgundy label. Previous owner's address label at first free endpaper, else nearly pristine. Housed in a Fine condition cardboard slipcase. Plentiful fine engravings by Miriam MacGregor. Lengthy introduction by David Vaisey xxxix, 1-443 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. …

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Great Britain; ISBN: 0192117823. ISBN/EAN: 9780192117823. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10650.…

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First. xxxix, 443pp., glossary, genealogical table, biographical notes. Fine in VG (very lightly sunned) slipcase. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MacGregor, Miriam (illustrator). Book.

First Edition: Hardback, black bds., gold titles, 140 x 225 mm., 800g., 386 pp., with Index and Appendices, illustrated, original dw., removed label mark on rear, VG/Fine copy.

2nd printing original boards As New octavo xxxix + 443pp., illusts., fldg. chart, Engravings by Miriam Macgregor. "Thomas Turner's diary covers a little over eleven years in the life of a man who kept a shop in the Sussex village of East Hoathly . begins in 1754 Turner was a newly married twenty-four year old recently arrived in the village . stopped writing his diary in 1765 . his bride of eleven years before was dead and so was their only child.". Nice quarter cloth binding over marbled boards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1998, 1st thus. Octavo. 443pp. Publisher's quarter blue buckram, marbled paper sides. Generally clean and bright. Housed in the card slipcase. A few minor bumps to slipcase extremities. Overall a 'Near Fine' copy. Miriam MacGregor (illustrator).

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, br. ed. xxxix-386pp. as new mylar protected. In the tradition of Pepys, Evelyn and Woodforde, thomas Turner 1729-1793 spent eleven years of his life recording the detailed minutiae of everyday village life in preindustrial England. A hardworking shopkeeper, he occupied a key position in East Hoathly, Sussex where he also served as undertaker, schoolmaster, and overseer to the poor. His massive journal--a third of which appears here--attests to his rightful place as an indispensable English diarist.…