Rev E H Goddard (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket Issued. Reprint. softcover, illustrated, 253 pages, fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [JOURNALISM]. Ed. Timothy Shay Arthur (1809-1885). Contributors: Rosella Rice, Alma L. Rockwood, Pipsey Potts, John G. Whittier, William Augustus Muhlenberg, H. G. Rowe, Joseph Blanco White, E. L. Saxon, Eula Lee, Rev. John Goddard, Mary E. Ireland, Elizabeth Akers Allen, Marion Knight, et al. "Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, Volume XLIV, 1876, and Arthur's Home Magazine, Volume XLVIII, 1880." Philadelphia: T. S. Arthur and Son, 1876-1880. First editions. Two volumes. English language. Hardcover volumes, the first in half black morocco over marbled-papered boards lettered gilt on spine; the second in full gilt-filleted brown cloth boards lettered gilt on spine. Annual anthologies of monthly magazine issues with numerous plates and in-text illustrations, articles, poems, humourous pieces, and ads. 8vos. 1876: 10 x 7 inches. 39 oz. 690 pp. 1880: 9 1/3 x 6 2/3 inches. 39 oz. 742 pp. Shelf-wear. Rubbing and abrasions to boards and edges. 1876 front endpapers broken along gutter. 1880 volume lacking its free fly-leaves and leaf 87-88, one leaf with corner docked. Texts clean. Very Good. No ISBN. No ASINs. "Arthur's Home Magazine (1852-1898) was an American periodical published in Philadelphia by Timothy Shay Arthur. Editors Arthur and Virginia Frances Townsend selected writing and illustrations intended to appeal to female readers. Among the contributors were Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, Rosella Rice, and Kate Sutherland. In its early years, the monthly contained a selection of articles originally published in Arthur's weekly Home Gazette. Its non-fiction stories contained occasional factual inaccuracies for the sake of a good read. A contemporary review judged it 'gotten up in good taste and well; and is in nothing overdone. Even its fashion plates are not quite such extravagant caricatures of rag-baby work as are usually met with in some of the more fancy magazines.' Readers included patrons of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco. Author Rosella Rice, best known for her writings about Johnny Appleseed, contributed countless stories, humorous essays, tutorials, and poems to the magazine. Writing from the perspective of various comedic characters, she adopted pseudonyms including Pipsissiway Potts (responsible homemaker), Aunt Chatty Brooks (eccentric hotelier), and Mrs. Sam Starkey (elderly busybody). The characters, likely created for Arthur's, 'inhabited her magazine's stories, and became real to hundreds of readers.'". …

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Sewn but unbound in printed paper cover. Some shelf wear and discolouration to covers but contents clean and sound. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Archaeology; Natural History & Resources. Inventory No: 91696.

Cloth. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. Part II dated 1911. Warminster Town Hall library label to front, notes and stamps to prelims. Part I is the stourhead collection, iv + 96pp. Part II viii + 163pp + LXIX plates. 2 parts in one book. Some general light wear, closed edges foxed, some underlining and notes throughout. Size: 8vo. Ex-Library.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A collection of scarce works from the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine. Five scarce works from the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, rebound together in cloth in one volume.The magazine is a country journal publishing the latest research on the archaeology, history, and environment of Wiltshire since 1853.Includes 'Wiltshire Words' by J. U. Powell, undated, dated from WorldCat. Afterwards there are four issues from 'Contributions Towards a Wiltshire Glossary' by G. E. Dartnell and E. H. Goddard. The first being from Volume XXVI (1892), and the later issues mentioned include Volume XXVII (1894).A scarce collection of articles from this late nineteenth century periodical. Rebound in cloth. Externally, excellent. There is some slight bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are generally bright and clean with some light spotting throughout. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…