Rev Rawnsley (31 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Printing. Good hardcover. No DJ. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Couple pages have paper clip indent. Rear end paper has tearing. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Back strip edge tearing. Hinge supported with library support tape.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition. 8 illustrations. Foxing to end papers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. The book and contents are tight. The pages are clean. The endpapers are lightly browned. The book is x-library with minimal markings. Covers are lightly scuffed and have light soil.

Hardcover. Condition: good. no jacket. No additional printings listed. NOT an ex library book. Book with red cover, print in gold, gilt on top edge. Darkened endpapers. Foxing on beginning pages and some interior pages. 271 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. James Maclehose & Sons, 1906. (Volume II of II only) Very Good hardback, foxing and some transfer stain to end matter. 259 pp including index, followed by one page pub ads, 8vo red cloth, deckled pages. With 17 illustrations, generally photographs of landscape, interiors and ocasiaonl portraits. All in good shape. Fine old bookplate on front pastedown. This book explores the literary association of the Lake District region in England, known for its scenic landscapes and contributions to English literature. Rawnsley delves into the works of famous authors such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, as well as lesser known writers who were inspired by the area. Full of anecdotes and insights into the literary history of the Lakes, this book is a must-read for literature enthusiasts and fans of the region alike.

Condition: Fair. 1909. No Edition Remarks. 227 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscriptions and sticker to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Dents to both board edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 241 pages. Illustrated with full page black and white plates. Soiling to covers. Spine has a one inch closed gash toward the bottom and also wear at edges. Gilt lettering is faded. Staining inside front and rear covers. Private library paste down and owner's name, location, date on flyleaf. Else very good. (R3).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ---------Original red cloth covers with gilt lettering and cover design and gilt top pages, book is near 8" tall. 258 pages, with frontispiece and 7 other illustrations.VERY GOOD CONDITION, minor edgewear covers-- no dust jacket--------------a pretty book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 10 plates; Hardback: red cloth decorated in gilt on spine, top edge gilt; Top board cracked, spine a little faded and worn at head, boards slightly splayed, fair+.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good (-). First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, well foxed end papers, a little foxing throughout and very minor bump to upper corner of front cover. Top page edges gilt, fore and lower page edges untrimmed. All ten photographic illustrations present. 249pp. A tour of the Lakes and some histoy of Cumbria and of the Lakes Poets. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 7.5 x 5.5 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1913, First Edition. Octavo. 14cm x 20cm approx. 249pp plus advert. Illustrated. Original cloth, gilt titles. Spine faded. Binding square and firm. Foxing to text-block and margins. Otherwise a 'Very Good' copy.

[xii], 249[1] pp, publishers leaf, frontis plus occasional other black & white plates. Original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine & front board, uncut. 20 cm x 14 cm. Spine discoloured, fading to board margins, minor rubbing to spine tips & corners, contents lightly age browned.

1st. Ed. 8vo. viii + 258pp. B/w ills., foxing. Original boards with gilt decoration, bumped with grubby spine. US$18.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Black & White photographs (illustrator). 3rd Edition. 245pp to include Indices plus 1p advert for the author's other works.Volume 1 only of 2. Bound in blue cloth with gilt title to spine and upper cover Fifteen photographic illustrations to include portrait frontis. of Robert Southey. Foxed end-papers otherwise very clean and unmarked. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. cr 8vo, illustd,243pp, orig red cloth gilt, spine just a little faded, a vg clean tight bright copy. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. VG+. First edition. No d/w. Illustrated with a folding map of the Lake District. A study of the nineteenth century literary residents and visitors to the Lake Distict. With General Index and Index Of Places. With non-authorial signature on front endpaper dated June 1894; with short tear (15mm) to map, map image not affected; minor bruising to head and tail of spine; else a very good plus copy of an UNCOMMON first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original slightly dulled down light tan coloured buckram boards with red title lettering to the front cover.No Dust-Jacket.This copy has one former owner's small plate to the front pastedown and there is one small bookseller's ticket to the bottom edge of the same page of 'Maurice Dodd' Cockermouth.There is some weakness to the gathering at frontispiece illustration of Wordsworth House and First Page of text.Contents remain clean internally.Illustrated with 4 black and white plates.Small 12mo Measures 19cm by 13cm Uncommon tribute to William Wordsworth in the town where he was born,88pp First Edition [1896].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrations by Edith Rawnsley. Light brown cloth gilt. Foxing on boards and endpapers, else near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Handsomely bound. 258 pages, some age near front and rear and light foxing here and there. H.20cm W.13cm D.2.5cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 283 pages. Lightly foxed and some age. H.19cm W.13cm D.3cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition. Handsomely bound. 243 pages, some age near front and rear. Light foxing here and there. H.19cm W.13cm D.2.5cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Handsomely bound. 271 pages. Some age near front, light foxing here and there. H.19cm W.13cm D.2cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in Publisher's original red cloth boards with bright and vivid title lettering to spine and upper cover.There is one former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown.Illustrated with 8 b&w plates including a frontispiece 'Out Hunting Otters in St John's Vale'.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness,top edge of the book is in gilt with other [page edges untrimmed.Internally the text block is very clean save for a few foxing spots in places and some browning/offsetting to the front endpaper.It really is a most attractive copy of this uncommon title.Rev H.D. Rawnsley was a co-founder of the National Trust, but that is not all.He was a great advocate for the English Lake District and wrote many works on The Lakes.He was an educationalist,and animal welfare enthusiast and he also served as a Parish Priest for over 30 years and appointed a Canon of Carlisle Cathedral and an Honorary Chaplain to King George V.Great copy for the collector,8vo (viii) 258pp First Edition 1st Impression [1902].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo (233mm ). Pp.ix, 250. Uncut. With a half title. Burgundy cloth backed boards, the spine lettered in gilt. Photogravure frontispiece of Whitehead. Overall a very good copy, and not an ex-library copy. Henry Whitehead ( 1825 - 1896) was a Church of England priest and the assistant curate of St Luke's Church in Soho, London, during the the outbreak of cholera 1854. He worked closely with John Snow ( 1813 - 1858 ) an English physician, in shortening the cholera outbreak in Soho. He moved to Brampton ( Now Cumbria ) in 1874, where he met his biographer the Rev. H.D. Rawnsley.

1903. James MacLehose. Hardback. Book - Good. Top edge gilt.

Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good/Very Good. First Edition. A bright firm copy with a fair degree of browning to the endpapers. The dj (protected, unclipped) is sound with some sunning particularly to the spine Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Tidily rebound in black cloth with new endpapers also. Owner name and stamp to front endpapers, clean and tight. Size: 16mo.

Second edition. In two volumes. xi, [3], 236, [2]; vii, [3], 251pp. With half-titles and 32 plates. Extra-illustrated with 156 plates, primarily engraved landscapes views of the Lake District and portraits of the Romantics and their circle. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled navy crushed half-morocco, blue cloth boards, T.E.G.Slightest of rubbing. Bookplates of Brackenburn and morocco bookplates of W. A. Foyle to front endpapers. A revised edition, handsomely bound and profusely extra-illustrated, of Church of England clergyman Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley's (1851-1920) comprehensive survey of the association of the Romantic Poets, including Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth, with the Lake District. William Alfred Westropp Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, co-founder of the eponymous bookshop on Charing Cross Road. Following his purchase of the former medieval monastery of Beeleigh Abbey in 1943, Foyle built an extensive personal library. In July 2000, following the death of his daughter and successor Christina, the library was dispersed at Christie's over three days, at the time being the most valuable English private library ever to be offered in Britain or on the Continent. Those books that remained with the family were sold by Dominic Winter Auctioneers in 2023 following the death of Foyle's grandson Christopher. Size: 8vo.

Quarter Vellum. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Storey, Isaac H. (illustrator). Limited edition number 54, signed by editor. Boards rather chipped and bumped with some spotting, and grubby at the edges. Vellum spine rubbed, foxed, with some discolouration. Closed edges foxed with some light foxing throughout, mainly to plates and endpapers. Owner name to ffep, otherwise content clean and tidy. Size: 4to. Signed by Author.