Milton John Thomson James (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Richard Griffin and Company, [nd], new edition. Hardback, 8vo, [iii],iv,163;[v],203pp, illust. Owner name/date (1862) in pencil, patchy foxing throughout. Original red cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, a little worn, marked and chipped. A fair copy. /0.7uk.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Roy.8vo, [iv], frontispiece, iv, 163, [i], frontispiece, [iv], 203, [i] pp. Original blue pebble grain cloth, heavily blind-stamped and with elaborate gilt on upper cover and backstrip, pale yellow endpapers. Tiny frays to head and tail of backstrip, few spots of foxing o/w VG+ copy of a scarce edition, WorldCat lists only Princeton, none on COPAC.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition thus. 12mo. pp. [i-iii] iv-xxiv, [1] 2-288. With an engraved title page illustrated with three portrait vignettes. Bound in contemporary stained calf, gilt spine with red leather label. Small early ownership signature in ink on the title page, an additional ownership signature has been neatly clipped from the top margin of the dedication leaf. The binding is worn, front board is detached, still a good copy: the text pages are clean and tight.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Early full calf, joint starting. Xxiv, 288pp. Includes an engraved title plate (which serves as source of publication information) , issued without a separate title leaf. Some light toning/foxing, pencil underlining/marginalia, stray ink mark. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A delightful collection of four volumes from the Diamond Classic series, published by Orr & Co. between 1828 and 1851. A collection of four volumes from the Diamond Classics series, also known as Orr & Co's cabinet edition series. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth. The Diamond Classics Series was a collection of miniature volumes of poetry, stories, novels and essays, uniformly bound in blue cloth. There were originally forty-six volumes in the series, published between 1828 and 1851. Dates and information acquired using Jisc, from a full set of the series held at the University of Oxford Libraries. This set is comprised of the following: 'The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside'. 'The Seasons' by James Thomson and 'The Farmer's Boy' by Robert Bloomfield, bound together with two separate paginations. 'Gifford's Baviad and Maeviad: Pasquin v. Faulder: Epistle to Peter Pindar' and 'The Poetical Works of the Right Honorable George Canning', bound together with two separate paginations. 'Paradise Regained; and Other Poems' by John Milton. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth. Externally, excellent, with light rubbing and a little bumping to the extremities. Spines are a touch faded, with the odd mark to cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with the occasional handling mark. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…