Morison James Cotter Morley John Editor (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Near Fine (Near Fi. Original publisher's black cloth binding with red lettering on covers and spine. No date, circa 1894. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 184 pages, complete. Two additional pages of advertisements in the back. Small square sticker on front pastedown with a library call number. A few numbers are written in black ink on the blank flyleaf preceding the half-title. There is one pink stamp each on the title page and Page 184 that reads, "Library, State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, Berkeley, Cal." The stamps do not affect text. Tipped-in pocket label on the back pastedown lists the terms of checking out books from the library and instructs patrons to place their cards in the pocket when the book in on loan. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Some dust on the top edge of the text block not affecting pages internally. No external markings, except for slight rubbing. A Fine copy. This book is part of a thirty-six-volume biographical series titled, English Men of Letters, which was edited by John Morley and written by different authors. This book is no. 15 of 36 in the series. One ad in the back lists other books in the series that had been released to date. Biography of Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), an English author, historian, and politician. He served as a Member of Parliament for Lymington between 1781 and 1784.…

Cloth. Condition: Good-. Second Edition. The book is good- with wear to edges of cover, damp staining and soiling to cover and endpapers, original bookseller's paper label on the fep, endpapers split and a bit of tanning to some pages. The interior is very good. This is an excellent reading copy.