Edited by Richard Whately (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp.xiv, 620 pages, a good hardback, publisher's original dark cloth, ornate blind stamp tooling to front and rear covers, the spine lettered in gilt (this has dulled), from a uk university library.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. (NAP). Full cloth-covered boards. While this title is widely available in cheap facsimile reprints of the original edition, this book is the Scolar Press edition with intro and notes by Ralph Pomeroy; the text has been re-set (it is not a facsimile); it is indexed and includes seven postscripts to early editions, and "two appendices that contain specific passages to which Whately's essay refers." The book is attractively bound in real cloth; the cloth and gilt titles are unfaded. The binding is tight, with good hinges. No marks to text. Small smudge top page-edge. No dustjacket, but the flaps are laid in.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London., 1867. Hardback New edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo. pp xxiv, 620,raised bands to spine with gilt panels and gilt emblem in latin and gilt borders to light brown leather. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Has bad tears to spine and book becoming detached, Inscription 1872 to fep with light foxing to end and title pages otherwise in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.…

Hardcover. Early reprint. xxiv, 586 pp., original brown cloth with gilt spine title, 8vo. Handsome edition of Bacon's essays, with indexes to essays as well as to the annotations. Light wear to spine head, bookplates of writer and educator George McLean Harper (1863-1947) and Isaac Dunton mounted to front fixed endpaper, else near fine.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good-. Fifth Edition. Some edgewear, foxing to feps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxiv, 616 pages; Brown leather, 5 raised bands, impressed decorations to front and rear, all edges dyed red, marbled eps. Handsome copy. Heavy volume requiring additional postage.

Disbound. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Moderate rubbing and fading to wrappers.; "New Edition". xxiv, 620 pages. Full tree calf binding, but with front board detached. Page dimensions: 215 x 133mm. A 1" by 1/4" loss of leather at head of spine. Spine leather rubbed. Gilt dentelles. Marbelled endpapers. School prize binding for Rugby School, with gilt school crest on front board. Awarded to H. L. Fowleer, 1875.; 8vo.…