Murray Rev James (9 results)

Condition: (very good/good). 1976 (reprint of 1953 edition with 1952 Imprimatur) 441 pages.

Condition: (good). 1953 441 pages illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. To Which Will be Added Extracts from the Evidence of Drs. Curtis, Kelly &c. &c. &c. Pp. 111. Professionall rebound in green cloth and overlapping vellum spine with gilt title. Cropping of margins, occasional cropping of the end of word on a small number of pages. No significant effect on text.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (Ref.S4) Half blue leather bound to blue cloth boards. Full marbled edging and endpapers. A couple of scuffs, marks to boards. Front top edge slightly faded. Top corners bumped otherwise very good. Owner's signature to front endpaper. Substantial foxing to prelims, frontis engraving, title pages. Occasional odd spot to main pages but generally very good internally and tightly bound. Nice copy.

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good Minus. 2 books in one. First pub date: reprinted 1898, second book pub date: reprinted 1906. Finely bound in King's College London binding of dark brown leather (faded to spine) with gilt decs to spine, front board, edges and dentelles. Endpapers and closed edges marbled, college presentation bookplate to front pastedown. Extremities rubbed, boards scratched, hinges cracked, however, content clean and solid. Size: 8vo Thick.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Marbled boards, red leather spine. Text is tight, with one one hole in one page (dedication page) . ; HB, 16mo; 212 pages; Alas, former owner repaired the binding, endpaper, and title/dedication page with library acetate tape. Former gift inscription, stamped name of giver. Clipping from bookseller's catalogs are glued on front pastedown, listing this title, and brief note on author. Small engraving on title page.

12mo in sixes. xxiv, [25]-108pp, steel engraved portrait frontis. Modern cloth gilt backed paper boards. Light offset from frontis to title. The first edition of 'The Travels . ' was published in 1773 without the portrait and memoir. Murray, a great satirist, is probably best remembered for his 'Sermons to Asses'. A notable contributor to the religious and political life of eighteenth century Newcastle, 'Travels of the Imagination' is his only extant biographical work. However Welford, who affords him an 8pp entry in 'Men of Mark', states that two manuscript items - 'A journey through Cumberland and the Lakes' and 'A journey to Glasgow' were lost. The greater part of this work deals with London but the early chapters feature the North-East. Murray has some pithy and cutting remarks to make about Durham, none with more bite than the following, "Durham would be a very fine place, were it not for the swarms of priests that are in it - [They] devour very extensive livings without being of any real service to the public. The common people are here very ignorant, and great profaners of the Sabbath-Day. It is customary for the idle people to play at the long bowl on the Sunday, when the weather is fair." (page 34). DISCOVER: BL, CUL. A variant Newcastle imprint is held at Durham and Oxford.

Two volumes, bound as one. Very Scarce First Edition, date of imprint from Adams./ Cf. Sabin 51505-51507. With the famous collection of 23 "much sought" after engraved portraits of important participants on both sides of the conflict (10 American and 13 British)and with a folding plan of Boston and Charlestown on which can be seen the placement of British and American troops for the Battle of Bunker Hill. 8vo, rare in contemporarily binding, being marbled boards backed in brown calf, the spine with blind-ruled raised bands and a single red morocco label gilt lettered and tooled. 573, 576 pp. A very well preserved text, the important 23 engraved portraits all in fine order, academic notations and markings in a very early (likely 18th century) hand are common throughout the first 90 or pages and then far more scarce throughout, they appear editorial in nature, the rare contemporary binding still strong and usable and completely authentic though worn and mellowed, a simple binding which also attests to early academic ownership. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF MURRAY'S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Clergyman James Murray had left little doubt as to which side his sympathies rested in his eloquent two volume history. His position was that the War should never have started, that the American colonists had been treated cruelly and unfairly. Murray's was one of the most significant British voices sympathetic to the American cause. Of great interest in Murray's IMPARTIAL HISTORY is the suite of engraved portraits, which were prepared especially for it. They include many of the most important figures of the war from both sides of the Atlantic. Included among which are Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Hancock, Generals Howe, Clinton and Putnum, Benedict Arnold, Commodore Hopkins and George III. The work is, "much sought on account of its portraits. [which] are of much interest" - Sabin.

Softcover. Condition: Good- to fine condition. Second edition. Folio. [6] 6pp., 5 plates with tissue guards. Bound in black half-cloth over stiff turquoise wraps with triple-framed black lettering and Royal emblem on cover; protected by modern mylar. Gilt edges. Turquoise endpapers. Title page in red, blue and black lettering with decorative augmentation, framed in red with tissue guard. Dedication page to the Queen. "In presenting to the public the present work the publisher had to objects in view; first, to bring under their notice one of the most ancient curious and valuable reliques of Irish Antiquity at present in existence by accurately drawn and coloured representations, and secondly, to produce a specimen of Irish Lithography at once tasteful, elegant, useful and instructive, and if the present work attains these objects they will consider themselves fully repaid." (Preface). Contains essay providing the historical context for the Ecclesiastical Bell, and five chromolithographs, protected by tissue guards, depicting the bell and four views of the shrine. Wraps with some discoloration and light scuffing al corners and foredge. Light scuffing from removed plate on inside front cover. Endpapers lightly wavy due to water exposure. Previours owner's name inked to front free endpaper. Binding in overall good-, interior in very good, title page and lithographs in near fine to fine condition.