Rev Robert Collyer (7 results)

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. First Edition. Red cloth, lettered in gilt, decorated in black and gilt, bevelled edges. Modest shelf wear, cloth flecked on portions of spine panel, rubbed at base of spine, light soiling to cloth, small hole to cloth along lower rear joint. Modest binding lean. Text block edges somewhat dulled by age, but interior is clean, and binding firm. xvi,302 pp., illus. w/ engraved plates, + publisher's catalog at rear. Content consists primarily of articles selected from the "Local Notes and Queries" columns of the Leeds Mercury Weekly Supplement. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, 282 pp plus Second part, i-xcvi, frontispiece, portrait of Robert Collyer, 13 full page plates, folding geological map, illustrations in the text. Original green decorated cloth, top edge gilt, a very good bright copy. Pencil signature of Dr Robert Collyer of New York dated 1903 on the reverse of the front free end paper, presumably a relative of the first author. Also a presentation inscription from Yorkshire botanist F A Lees to his father dated 1888. Lees wrote the section on botany in this book forming pages xxxi - lxi. Part 2 of this work covers geology, botany, fauna and early remains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A large hardcover, with gilt decor and lettering. Tight binding. Clean pages. Unusually good condition for a volume this old.

re-bound in plain cloth. Condition: Fine. Large paper, first edition. With chapters on its geology by J.W.Davis; botany, by F.Arnold Lees; fauna, by W.Eagle Clarke.282, (ii), xcvi, (ii), with 80 illustrations, including etched frontispiece and engraved portrait. Full page colour map of region. Re-bound in plain green buckram with gilt lettering. Library number at bottom of spine but contents clean, fresh and unmarked with no library stamps of marks present. Scarce LARGE PAPER EDITION.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A smart copy of this illustrated history of Ilkley, with chapters on geology, botany, fauna, and prehistoric remains. With eighty illustrations. A detailed history of Ilkley is a spa town and civil parish in the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, with chapters on geology, botany, fauna, and prehistoric remains. Written by Robert Collyer, an American Unitarian clergyman, and Joseph Horsfall Turner, an English antiquarian noted for his work on the Victorian and Edwardian periods. With contributions from various other authors. In the original full cloth binding with gilt. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. A small puncture mark to the spine causing a minor split to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot and minor age toning to the extremities. Very Good. book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

xcvi+282pp. 4to. Original buckram, with gilt lettering and decorations, corners a little bumped. Black and white plates and colour map. A very good copy. First edition.