Rev Edward Roe (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. 12mo. brown cloth w picture of girl within foliage decoration to front. Gilt titles to sp. Faded sp and mottling to cover. Tanned pegs and eps. Booksellers stamp ffep. Book.

Green Embossed Cloth. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Not Illustrated (illustrator). Circa 1900. Front three end paper missing.please e-mail for further details. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Hutchinson, Fred Peyran[?] (illustrator). Very good book in green buckram covers with gilt titles to spine and front; spine with ornate gilt decoration and front board with an intricate blind stamped pattern. Internally very good; owner's name very small and neat to half title page; illustrated with two plates, the frontispiece protected by a tissue guard; binding sound; free of foxing; dark grey end papers; all edges gilt; undated c 1880 [?].

Final ad. leaf, ads on e.ps. Orig. printed pictorial limp card wrappers; sl. marked, spine rippled, sl. wear to hinges. Ownership inscription of A.L. Bridger on leading f.e.p., blind library stamp to following wrapper. Topp volume IV, number 697 lists this edition as no. 60 in Warne's Star Series. Priced at one shilling. A Christian novel in which a curmudgeon is greatly improved by a delightful young woman, first published 1874. Roe, 1838-1888, popular and religiously didactic novelist. He played an important role in softening puritan attitudes to fiction.

Half title, ads on e.ps. Orig. printed pictorial limp card wrappers; spine rippled & worn. Gift inscription 'R.J. Collier with love from her affect Aunt R-' on half title, blind library stamp of W.H. Smith on leading f.e.p. Topp volume IV, number 929 lists this as no. 94 in Warne's Star Series. Convalescence through faith. First published 1884. Roe, 1838-1888, popular and religiously didactic novelist. He played an important role in softening puritan attitudes to fiction.