Godwin Francis Bishop (7 results)

Condition: Good. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering, no dust jacket. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good++. Very Good++ softcover. Faint sticker shadow and previous owner's name on the front cover, else Near Fine. Quite clean and tight. No writing. We wrap and box our books for shipping.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Edited with Introduction and Annotations by John Anthony Butler; Originally written in the early 1600s; Clean, tight, unmarked; spine straight and uncreased; very minimal wear; This is an enigmatic work, being at once an early voyage imaginaire, a quasi-utopia, and an early work of science fiction. Preposterous as the notion must seem today that the harnessing of birds might actually take a man into space, the imaginative logic and detail with which the trip is prepared suspends our disbelief. The trip itself is a wonderful accumulation of religious and ancient lore, which Dr. Butler spells out in full historical and critical introduction, beginning with the theories of the ancients concerning the moon and its possible inhabitants. This work is further testimony to the fact that earth's closest neighbour in space has fire the human imagination, and has served as a locus for placing some of the social and natural "othernesses" that have been born of imagination and speculation.…

Papered Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint Edition. 22.5 cm, ix, [i blank,] 26 & 44 pp, b&w plates, d/w. VG copy. Based on an ancient work, and drawing on various publications since. This is lighter in weight than the average allowed for at the checkout and there will be a freight rebate made.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. The contemporary calf binding is quite rubbed, with a snag at the top of the spine, the two free endpapers are almost detached and edge chipped, but otherwise this "unsophisticated binding is solid. This Latin chronicle details the history of England during the reigns of three Tudor monarchs, covering the period from Henry VIII through Mary. Godwin (1562-1633) is described by Wood as a ".good man, grave divine, skillful mathematician, excellent philosopher, pure Latinist, and incomparable historian." Elizabeth made him a bishop for his historianship. "During his sixteen years' tenure of the see of Llandaff he employed his leisure in improving his 'Catalogue of Bishops,' and in collecting materials for the civil and ecclesiastical history of England. In 1615 he published an improved edition of his 'Catalogue,' with a dedication to James I, and annals of the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary, in elegant Latin. As a reward for these labours he was by the king's desire translated to the see of Hereford." DNB It should be noted that these annals also include Queen Elizabeth's coming to the throne. Some copies have an errata leaf which is not present here. STC 11945. ESTC s12123 Extra Postage For All But Media.…

Leather Binding. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. A very good copy of the 1615 Second edition. Bound in period brown calf, expertly rebacked by Winstanley & Robotti (see below) in brown calf with tan leather label and raised bands, corners renewed (text has some soiling, stains, and wear). Includes a fair amount of period marginalia. Printed in black-letter type; decorative headpieces, etc. [12],699,[1] pages. [6] pages of typed notes related to the background of the work bound in at rear. An ink stamp at foot of front pastedown reads: 'Winstanley & Robotti' with 'repaired 1962' in pencil beneath. PROVENANCE: Ink signatures of Tho. Davies and Jno. Bruce on title page; ink note at rear discussing Bruce's provenance signed by John [illegible] Nichols. …

4to in 8s. [12], 703, [1] p. Modern period - style calf (not recent). Some unobtrusive old dampstains and a few pages soiled. A few marginal paper repairs, not affecting the text. Old endpapers preserved with the signature on the front endpaper of Samuel Shuckford, author of 'Sacred and profane history of the world'. First published in 1601, this edition was expanded by the inclusion of the ' . . . discourse concerning the first conuersion . . . ' STC 11938.…