John Aubrey Editor (49 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cream Colored Cloth Covered Boards. Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Tanning From Age, Remnants Of Previous Owners Bookplate On Inside Front Cover, Otherwise An Unmarked, Clean, And Solid Copy.

Condition: Fine. SECOND IMPRESSION (1976); 324 pp., hardcover, fine in a fine slipcase. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. ORIGINAL 2000 S.FRENCH LONDON EDITION WITH DIFFERENT ARTWORK/NEW/I HAVE THOUSANDS OF PLAYS AND MUSICALS IN MY LISTINGS/.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. The Folio Society. Fine hardcover in publisher's slipcase. Excellent shape overall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FOLIO SOCIETY. 1988. COLLECTIBLE. Very good hardbound book, no dust jacket as issued, in protective, decorative, cardboard slipcase. VERY GOOD - Collectible. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. From the library of noted American poet William H. Matchett, with his name and the date (April, 1990) inked on the ffep. A Near Fine copy of the Folio Society Edition (1975); publisher's original grey slipcase Near Fine with a touch of wear. 324pp., b/w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine(-). Folio in black DJ, pale yellow spine, gilt to spine, 372 pages, 502 b&w illustrations, portraits; 31 cm. Illustrators -- Great Britain -- 19th century. Out of print. Series: A studio book. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Very mild rubbing to spine head and foot, light sunning to spine foot edge, extremely gently bumped front-rear corner, other three corners extremely gently rubbed, faint soiling and few spots to front free endpaper and next two endpapers, light soiling to title page, blue ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, 1-inch tear to front DJ edge, faint soiling to DJ, mostly to rear DJ, bright pages, tight binding, else Near Fine(-) in Very Good(+) DJ. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Corners show light wear, bookplate on endpaper. otherwise book is very clean and sharp, with a solid binding. Dust jacket has a few small tears at top/bottom of spine, half inch chip at top of back, some light toning. otherwise clean and presentable, now protected in an archival cover.

Condition: As New. . From the library of Charles Edward Roberts, owner and founder of Wonder Book & Video. With his custom bookplate on front pastedown. Slipcase Very Good. (Folio society, British history, British literature, short story collection, anthology, biographies, folklore, superstition).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Helen Kapp (illustrator). 1st Edition. Tan cloth, gilt on black title panel. Spine panel cloth modestly toned with minor surface loss at top corner, otherwise virtually as issued. li,206 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. BEAUTIFUL: NEW Fist Folio Society Edition (Orig. 1975) Fifth Impression, Reissued 1988: NEW gray paper-over-boards gondola-front slipcase, EXQUISTE cover w/ British-green silk-finish linen wrapping spine & extending 1.00" onto front & rear panels SUMPTUOUSLY covered in library-durable natural wheat-tan linen w/ gilt-stamped titles displayed inside double-rule-gilt-bordered black title "boxes" on front panel & spine, IMPECCABLE smooth-cut text-block exterior, BEAUTIFUL British-green card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior lithographically printed at The Bath Press (Avon) w/ handsome LUCIDITY in 11-point (spaced one-point) Monotype Bembo on SUPERB unblemished "Archive Long Life" paper * 6.18" x 9.88" x 1.28 / 6.18" x 10.18" x 1.28 (slip-cased), 0.90 kg / 1.04 kg (slip-cased), 326 pp * ABOUT JOHN AUBREY: John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 - 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher & writer, perhaps best known as the author of "Brief Lives", his collection of short biographical pieces. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic & other field monuments in southern England, & who is particularly noted for his systematic examination of the Avebury henge monument. The Aubrey holes at Stonehenge are named after him, although there is considerable doubt as to whether the holes that he observed are those that currently bear the name. He was also a pioneer folklorist, collecting together a miscellany of material on customs, traditions & beliefs under the title "Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme". He set out to compile county histories of both Wiltshire & Surrey, although both projects remained unfinished. His "Interpretation of Villare Anglicanum" (also unfinished) was the first attempt to compile a full-length study of English place-names. He had wider interests in applied mathematics & astronomy, & was friendly w/ many of the greatest scientists of the day. For much of the 19th & 20th centuries, thanks largely to the popularity of "Brief Lives", Aubrey was regarded as little more than an entertaining but quirky, eccentric & credulous gossip. Only in the 1970s did the full breadth & innovation of his scholarship begin to be more widely appreciated. He published little in his lifetime, & many of his most important manuscripts (for the most part preserved in the Bodleian Library) remain unpublished, or published only in partial form. -Wikipedia, where rich additional details may be found. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for our posted below-cost additional fee of $12.00 & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to all international destinations at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A selection based upon existing contemporary portraits.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Tan cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. 324 pages. Portraits. No slipcase. A clean, attractive copy. "John Aubrey's Brief Lives is one of the strangest books -- if indeed this collection of notes, excerpts, gossip and dry facts can be called a book -- to have achieved literary fame. Their author was equally strange, in his way: a gentleman with the learned turn of mind, yet little formal education, a lover of books and manuscripts, yet almost penniless, a would-be scholar who loved worldly company as much as that of serious men, who spent the last twenty years of his life living in other people's houses, on the run from his creditors.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: As New. As shown in stock photo, 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good. ----------Navy cloth with gilt cover design, the book is 8" tall. 410 pages.VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight soli binding and hinges, clean text- - dust jacket Very Good Condition, with light edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Slip Case. First Edition First Printing Thus. Near fine book in clean, fresh oatmeal coarse weave cloth covers with ; bright gilt titles to brown panel on the spine; pattern of open rectangles in gilt and brown to front and spine. Internally near mint and free of inscriptions; printed at BAS printers, Wallop; very well illustrated; light orange end papers. The lightly marbled russet slip case is very good++.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good book in textured oatmeal covers in orange slipcase. Book has a couple of pale grubby marks to spine, title in gilt on slight worn brown background. Internally mint with no marks. Slipcase has some wear to joints and light sunning to the top.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photograph available on request.

Quarter Bound Green Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 10th Printing. Collection of short biographical pieces by the English antiquary John Aubrey (1626-1697). 324pp illustrated with black and white portraits to the chapter heads. Bound in green cloth over khaki cloth, with gilt lettering on black title panels with gilt borders. Dark green endpapers. Near fine copy with no inscriptions. Black slipcase has minor surface scuffing, otherwise very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Second Folio Impression. 324pp, notes, bw ills. Or decorative cloth in card slipcase. Spine a little flecked and worn. Slipcase faded and stained. Folio Society edition of Aubrey's Brief Lives featuring notes, excerpts, gossip and dry facts of some 90 persons of interest. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-centuryEngland stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of theperiod. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire; at theage of 26 he inherited a family estate encumbered with debt, andfinally went bankrupt in the 1670s. From then on he led a sociable,rootless existence at the houses of friends - from Oxford and theMiddle Temple -pursuing the antiquarian studies which hadalwaysobsessed him. At his death in 1697 he left a mass of notes andmanuscripts, among them the material for Brief Lives. He nevermanaged to put even a single life into logical order; all we have arethe raw materials, scribbled down -`tumultuously as they occurred to mythoughts'. With this full, modern English edition, whichreproduces Aubrey's words as closely as possible, Richard Barberintroduces us to Aubrey and his world, tells how theLives cameinto being and enables many new readers to enjoy this eccentricmasterpiece. Very good condition. Light shelf-scuffing on cover.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 332 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Octavo, xxvi+410 pages, original boards in dustwrapper, lightly edgeworn, name on flyleaf, a very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Tall 8vo. Publisher's cloth in edgeworn DJ. A nice copy.