Inscribed Presentation Copy from the Author (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Second Edition. Pp. 52. Illustrated. Signed & Inscribed By the Auth.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second Impression. Pp. (2), 216.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second Impression. Pp. (2), 216.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pp. vii, 216.With pertinent press clipping loosely inserted. Signed & Inscribed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages, XXII, 513. Illustrated.

Leather bound. Condition: Very good. Private Publication. Quarto, [6], 89pp. Marbled boards with red morocco spine and corners, title stamped in gilt on spine. Leather rubbed along spine and corners, scuff mark near lower left corner of back cover. Some foxing, mainly endpapers and flyleaves, untrimmed pages, small closed tear along fore edge of pages 53/54. Inscription on front flyleaf: "The Lord Bishop of Oxford, from GM Fortescue, Dropmore, Aug. 18, 1866." (Lowndes II, 942) A nice example of this scarce publication, with approximately 50 copies being printed and bought up primarily by family. The author of this work, Lord William W. Grenville (1759-1834), was a member of the House of Lords and Prime Minister of England from 1806-1807. His most notable accomplishment during his ministry was the passing of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, which resulted in the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Lord Grenville's home was Dropmore, which was built in the 1790s, and with his death in 1834, Lady Grenville continued to live at the estate until her death in 1864. Having no children, the home passed into the hands of her nephew, George M. Fortescue (1791-1877). In 1866, Fortescue presented Bishop Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873) with this copy of his uncle's book of poetry, Nugae Metricae. Bishop Wilberforce was the third son of William Wilberforce, who played a prominent role in the movement to abolish the slave trade in the early nineteenth century. Bishop Wilberforce was involved in the 1860 Oxford debate on evolution, in which he opposed Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Presentation copy of Nugae Metricae by Lord W.W. Grenville, inscribed to Bishop Samuel Wilberforce from George M. Fortescue, nephew of the author. (illustrator). Signed. …

London, William Clowes and Sons, 1876. Small 8vo. Original full red cloth. Title and author stamped in gold on upper wrapper. A small paperlabel at top of spine. A small stamp on top of title-page. Faint discoloration to lower part of upper wrapper. Frontispiece. 59 pp., textillustrations. Faint scattered brownspots, mainly to the first leaves. With dedication from the author on front free endpaper "H.P./ General Baron von Bülow/ with the authors compliments." Bülow is probably the Danish Genreral-Major Otto Chr. Severin August von Bülow (1812-95) or it could be General-Lieutnant Carl Ernst Johan Bülow (1814-1890) who was a member of the Danish legation to the English Court from 1865 to 1880. A note on the front free endpaper states, that the book in 1885 was handed over to the School of Gymnastics by General Fog. On foot of the same leaf some discoloration left over from a paperlabel. First edition. - Extremely scarce. Penzer p.93: 'very rare'.…