Rev David Blair (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Original leather binding; v+364pp. Large fold-out map of Solar System in front. Shows wear.

Full Leather. Condition: Fair. 492 pp., 2 ads, one on the inside front cover; one on the inside back cover. Front cover starting to separate. Full black leather, see picture.

Condition: Good. 1919. hardcover. Good copy with some wear and tear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1919. hardcover. Good copy with some wear and tear. . . . .

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Hardback, red cloth, gilt title to spine. 14.5cm x 9.5cm. 391pp, [1]. Folding frontis. Numerous b&w plates. Spine slightly faded with crease down spine. A decent copy. (ar10).

294 pp. Two folding maps; engraved text illustrations. 12mo, publisher's quarter leather and blue boards; publisher's large printed paper label on front cover. Phelps' Second Edition, from the Thirteenth English edition, revised and improved. Light foxing throughout; damp-staining to the last couple of leaves; a few chips to the leather; boards dust-soiled and a bit worn.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 'Class Book: or Three Hundred and Sixty Five Reading Lessons Adapted to the Use of Schools; for Every Day in the Year' by Rev. David Blair. Richard Phillips 1811 tenth edition. Full leather binding, somewhat worn to the spine. Front endpaper loose. The contents are in good order with all pages tightly bound in.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This is a 1822 New Haven edition in nice 6 inch leather binding with gold stamping on the spine, 216 pages, previous owner's name and an 1824 date on the front flyleaf. Please note that the text is very foxed, but still legible. As a retired physicist, I really like it. But all that is known about electricity is the static type and galvanic action. But you are shown a battery made by connecting a matrix of Leyden jars together.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. H/B deep blue cloth bds, Fair, corners rubbed, spine partly missing at ends and material curling away in places, ink stain towards rear at top edge of pges spreading from spine, does not affect text, pges 145-191 loosening and are not proud to rest of book, neat ink name and date on fep. A scarce title from the mid 19th century. "The lessons have been selected on the principle of combining, as far as the subjects would admit, the beauties of composition with instruction in every important branch of knowledge.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'The Class Book: or Three Hundred and Sixty Five Reading Lessons Adapted for the Use of Schools for Every Day in the Year' by the Rev. David Blair. Richard Phillips 1806. Full leather, some wear and minor marks. The binding is sound. Contents good with some tanning and a feww minor marks. Good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Full calf leather with gilt-lettered red leather title label to spine. Heavily rubbed, spotted and scuffed; thin strip of leather missing from lower edge of front board; corners and spine ends bumped with small splits starting at upper spine end. Green-speckled text block. Binding fairly sound, interior quite toned. A handful of small wood engravings within the text. Minor staining and foxing to interior, and a few small page tears. Minor pen marks and notes to a couple of the first pages. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 250 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Black hardcover in good condition. Scuffing to front and back cover, and corners and edges. Signature of previous owner and stamps on the beginning end papers. Edges of text block darkened due to age.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good (Book Condition). A good copy bound in brown leather with spine bands and lettering in gilt. Little nicks and dark spots on covers, foxing to pages and owner's signature. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book. …

Full-Leather. Condition: Good (Book Condition). A good copy bound in brown leather with spine bands and lettering in gilt. Little nicks and dark spots on covers, foxing to pages and owner's signature. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book. …

Condition: DISCRETO USATO. Juvenile library INGLESE Opera incompleta, vol. II e composta da due numeri, 60-61, rilegati insieme, della Juvenile library, XII edizione. Brossura in cartoncino, scurita e segnata dal tempo, con leggera usura lungo i margini, con strappetti e piccole mancanze al dorso e lungo i margini. Pagine con legatura lievemente allentata, con ampio margine e fioritura sparsa, leggermente mosse ed irrigidite causa umiditÃ. Numero complessivo pagine 427 (206-221).…

No Binding. Condition: Disbound. New Edition. '.Reading Exercises for the Use of School, on a New and Improved Plan; Being a Sequel to Mavor's Spelling-Book, and an Introduction to the Class Book, Speaker, Reader, and Pleasing Instructor'. Disbound. Illus. 8vo., iv + 188 pp. No date, but early C19th. First and last leaves loose.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 10th Edition. Small Hard back 1816. 10th edition. All the plates are present. Dispatched "Royal Mail Tracked 24" next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref OHMP. A Grammar of Natural and Experimental Philosophy by Rev David Blair. Published in 1816 by Richard Phillips, London.…

Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This copy is bound in a dark brown calf-marbled leather, burgandy leather spine label has gilt lettering. There is very little corner bumping, some edge wear and rubbing of the covers. Head and foot of spine are quite worn. Rubbed spot with slight damage upper back cover, circular {possibly acid caused?}. Owner's mark inked neat upper fep, some shadowing and light foxing of the endpapers. Interior text has quite yellowed with age and has some foxing. Illustrated with 100 engravings on wood. Some light spill marks on a few edges {water?}. Faint pencil calculations on back endpaper. A good copy. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Various [engravings] (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Plates (27 of 28) of machinery, planets etc. 138x87mm maroon roan leather (rebacked original spine laid on) iv +323pp slight signs of use, name to margin of Preface. 1 volume. Hardcover.

ppvi, 260, 8(adverts). Contemporary full calf; covers worn, detached and with loss to spine. Few tears and holes, with loss to few letters. SOLD A/F. With a Frontis Plus Six Plates. (illustrator).

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A charming nineteenth-century book of reading lessons for everyday from January to June, in a full tree calf binding. The fourteenth edition of this scarce work; two parts in one volume, in a full tree calf binding with marbled edges.Ink inscription to the verso of the title page, dated 1894.Reading lessons selected, arranged and compiled from various authors for every day by the English author Eliza Fenwick (1767-1840), under the pseudonym of the Revered David Blair. This is the fourteenth edition of this work grouped into four quarterly parts; this volume contains the first and second parts. The first part of this class book contains reading lessons from 1st January until 31st March. The second part of this class book contains lessons from 1st April to 30th June. Reading lessons include subjects such as world history, natural history, and the building of a good character, from authors such as Johnson, Addison and Hume. In a full tree calf binding. Externally smart, with rubbing to the joints and extremities. Gilt to spine remains bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with occasional offsetting. Ink inscription to verso of title page has bled through a little. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Publication: London, Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, n.d. [c. 1800â"1815] Formatting: 8vo, pagination unverified, untrimmed text block. Condition Report: Good. The volume has been sensibly but plainly rebound in grey-blue paper over boards, presenting a tight, secure structure devoid of external embellishment. The text block remains entirely untrimmed, preserving its original rough-cut edges which display expected age-toning and moderate dust-soiling. Internally, the binding holds firm, though the preliminary leaves, including the frontispiece and title page, exhibit significant damp staining and prominent tide marks primarily localised to the lower gutter and margins. Intermittent foxing and scattered spotting are present throughout the text block, commensurate with the paper stock and provincial production of this era, yet the structural integrity remains uncompromised and the text is fully legible. Catalogue Note: This "Stereotype Edition" compiles Edward Youngâs profoundly influential blank-verse meditation alongside Robert Blairâs The Grave and supplementary verses, effectively gathering the period's most popular "Graveyard School" poetry into a single, accessible volume. The text is accompanied by an engraved frontispiece portrait of Young and several internal engraved plates executed by notable period craftsmen (including Neagle, Cooke, and J. Palmer), representing a solid example of nineteenth-century provincial illustration. The copy bears modest but interesting provenance markers, including early ownership signatures ("J. Burman" and what appears to be "John Forster") on the preliminary leaves. Having been rebound functionally in plain paper boards, the book stands as an authentic, unsophisticated survival of a heavily read printing. Such stereotyped editions, while historically printed in enormous numbers to satisfy the sweeping middle-class appetite for pietistic literature, are surprisingly scarce on the open market today in any condition, as they were overwhelmingly read to pieces rather than preserved in formal libraries. A quintessential cornerstone of the eighteenth-century "Graveyard School" of poetry, Edward Young's Night Thoughts was a spectacular literary success that defined the mood of Christian melancholia for generations. Written in profound grief following a succession of personal losses, this expansive blank-verse epic explores the transient nature of life, the inevitability of death, and the hope of immortality. This compilation also features Robert Blair's similarly influential poem The Grave, alongside other contemporary elegiac works, offering a comprehensive immersion into the era's fascination with mortality, mourning, and spiritual redemption. W.M. Craig; Cooke; Neagle; J. Palmer; J. James; J. Dudley; J. Taylor (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Plates (28 incl. folding map) of machinery, planets etc. 138x87mm maroon roan leather (tips rubbed) iv +316pp. Lacks front endpaper and with slight signs of use, name to margin of Preface but a nice copy. 1 volume. Hardcover.

viii, 316 pp. Folding frontispiece; folding world map; engraved text illustrations. 12mo, old mottled sheep; gilt spine. Third American edition, with additions and improvements. Boards slightly bowed; slight rubbing at edges of boards; otherwise very ncie. A School Prize copy from the Albany Academy, with 1822 gilt-lettered leather label on front panel and printed paper label to the same recipient on the front pastedown.…

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A smartly bound copy of David Blair's highly popular reference work, illustrated with numerous charming vignettes and folding plate. Bound in full calf, with the boards rebacked. The thirteenth edition. A popular reference work by the Rev. David Blair, with chapters on grammar, arts, sciences and many other aspects of "useful knowledge". Charmingly illustrated with numerous vignettes throughout, and a folding plate of the solar system frontispiece. While no collation is available for this edition, other editions contain a second folding plate of the earth, which this copy does not have.With four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Bound in full calf, with the boards rebacked. Externally, very smart, with light wear only. Ink note to front paste down. Endpapers retained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just the odd mark or small closed tear. Paper tape repair to the verso of the folds of the frontispiece. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Good+. Complete with the Frontispiece Map of the Solar System "From the Sun to the Planet Herschel and the Large Fold-Out Map of "The Earth" with Table of Heights at the side. Both Maps Published by R Phillips. Wide Ranging Contents. Subjects include: Agriculture, Building, Government & Laws, Astronomy, Morals & Religion, Animated Nature, Chemistry, Optics, and much more. Illustrated throughout with In-Text illustrations. Contemporary Brown Full-Leather Binding. 317 Pages + Contents page at the back. 5 3/4" Tall, 210g. No other inscriptions.Previous owner's name on Endpaper, Dated 1818. Some wear to Leather. Binding firm. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. …