Rev Walter Skeat Editor (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Very small thin nice hardbound copy. Dated 1895. "School Edition." Originally published London Henry Frowde Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, E.C. and also in New York, MacMillan & Company, 66 Fifth Avenue. This is the second and revised edition published at Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Some foxing on inside front page. Otherwise a great handsome copy. Edited by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, Litt-D. "S"keat (PM).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VERY GOOD HARDCOVER. PENCILED NOTES THROUGHOUT. PLEASE REVIEW PICTURES.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, damage to spien, tanning to pages, foxing to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Acceptable. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888. lxxxvi,462 pages. 7.5x5", cloth. Cover lightly soiled, owner name (Tirzah L. Sherwood, Smith College, Jan. 1891), few light pencil marks in text, G.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Fair. Hardback book, no dust jacket, in fair condition. Date 1962. Pencil annotation throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in overall good shape with light general wear. Binding firm and intact. Number on first blank page, otherwise Clean throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. Assumed first edition, thus. Near fine with no dust jacket (as issued). Book shows only light edge wear. Interior remains crisp and clean, binding firm. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. A good copy in the original cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. No ownership inscription and not foxed. Hinges sound. Would be very good but for pencil and ink side and underlining and marginal writing. Pp.lv,159.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 18mo. Full brown cloth. xlviii, 216 pp. Rubbing to extremities, else fine. Piers the Plowman is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest works of English literature of the Middle Ages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 10th Edition revised, not with parallel texts, book binding and text in good condition, binding tight and square text with extensive pencil notation, name of PO on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Good condition ex-library hardcover with gilt embossed front board, no dust jacket, from St Catherine's College, Oxford. Boards are lightly marked, and board corners and spine ends are slightly bumped and rubbed. Page block is tanned with library stamps on the page block head and face. Library plate on front pastedown, numbers penned to FEP, and library stamp on title page. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. No Jacket. Darker green cloth cover with gold text on the spine. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Text has several underlinings and notations. P/o partial sticker inside the cover. Some age adiscoloration to the cover. P/o name and notation on the half title page. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, dusty page edges, slight foxing to end papers and no bumping to corners. 73pp. Thought to have been written around 1394, this famous poem, as well as telling of the ploughman's code gives us other contemporary details including for example the best description we have of a Dominican convent. The Middle Englist text is accompanied by extensive elements of translation. 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: 6.75 x 4.75 inches.

Standard work on the lesser known Chaucer poems. 2nd, enlarged and revised edition. 502pp. Green cloth decorated in gilt. Large and Heavy volume. Extra postage will be required for orders outside UK - please enquire in advance.Name to fep otherwise VG.

8vo. lxxxvi, 462pp, [2]pp editor's works, 40pp puiblisher's list. Original olive green cloth gilt, bevelled edges, patterned eps, teg. Extremes very lightly rubbed; ht lightly browned.

8vo. lxxxvi, 502pp, [2]pp + 8pp puiblisher's list. Original olive green cloth gilt, bevelled edges, patterned eps, teg and partly unopened. Extremes very lightly rubbed.

Hardback. Tenth edition. 'According to the Version Revised and Enlarged by the Author about A. D. 1377.'Tenth edition revised.Piers the Plowman is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of English literature of the Middle Ages.     Good condition. Pages, cover. spine - intact and binding sound. Name inscribed at top of first page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Oxford University Press, London, 1965, hb no d/w (2 vols), 3rd impression of the 1954 edition, blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, light bumping and wear at the head and foot of spine else few signs of wear, some fading of the spines, pages clean and bright, good secure binding, a very good two volume set [Box 25].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Printing. ,brown cloth, gilt lettering, C3 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. **EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION!** The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. New York: The Modern Library, 1929 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED. Here is a GORGEOUS PRISTINE FIRST PRINTING of a rare Modern Library title in a great typographical dust jacket. Bound in purple balloon cloth (spine #5) with Kent end papers. Very short-lived binding style, in use 1929 - Spring 1930. This gold-heavy design was planned before the 1929 crash, and was quickly deemed too expensive for Depression-era book publishing. The gold torchbearer was replaced with a blindstamped torchbearer, and in 1930, the gold tree was dropped. The book is FINE and PRISTINE!! Solid binding, bright gilt on cover and spine, perfect matching purple topstain. Contents are clean with no owner's signature or other writing in text besides Sold at Retail by Macy's stamped on title page. GORGEOUS! BOOK APPEARS UNREAD AND UNOPENED IN NEW BOOKSTORE CONDITION!! The beautiful typographical dust jacket is NEAR FINE with slightest of chipping at extremities. Extremely clean and bright with slight spine darkening but still beautiful which is very rare for this title! 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. The back of the dust jacket mentions 169 titles matching a 1929 printing and FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET IN PRISTINE CONDTION!! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. **EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION!** The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. New York: The Modern Library, 1929 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED. Here is a GORGEOUS PRISTINE FIRST PRINTING of a rare Modern Library title in a great typographical dust jacket. Bound in red balloon cloth (spine #5) with Kent end papers. Very short-lived binding style, in use 1929 - Spring 1930. This gold-heavy design was planned before the 1929 crash, and was quickly deemed too expensive for Depression-era book publishing. The gold torchbearer was replaced with a blindstamped torchbearer, and in 1930, the gold tree was dropped. The book is FINE and PRISTINE!! Solid binding, bright gilt on cover and spine, perfect matching red topstain. Contents are clean with no owner's signature or other writing in text. GORGEOUS! BOOK APPEARS UNREAD AND UNOPENED IN NEW BOOKSTORE CONDITION!! The beautiful typographical dust jacket is FINE! Extremely clean and bright which is very rare for this title! 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. The back of the dust jacket mentions 169 titles matching a 1929 printing and FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET IN PRISTINE CONDTION!! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). A smartly bound second edition copy of these two poems attributed to King James I of Scotland. Second and revised edition. The Scottish Text Society. With two folding facsimile plates. Collated complete. Two poems attributed to James I, the King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437. Containing The Kingis Quair, a fifteenth-century Early Scots poem. Semi-autobiographical in nature, it describes the King's capture by the English in 1406 on his way to France and his subsequent imprisonment by Henry IV of England. With four versions of the Ballad of Good Counsel, from the earliest to the restored version, the latter being founded upon collation of the other three. Edited by Walter William Skeat, a British philologist and Anglican deacon. In the original quarter crushed morocco binding with green cloth boards. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne. 1919 hardback blue cloth no dj 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. 732 pages, 149 pages of glossarial index,discolouring to spine and cover edges, frontispiece is loose and nicely written name to fep otherwise inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

Leather. Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). A smartly bound copy of these two poems attributed to King James I of Scotland. Scarce work. The Scottish Text Society. Two poems attributed to James I, King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437. Containing The Kingis Quair, a fifteenth-century Early Scots poem. Semi-autobiographical in nature, it describes the King's capture by the English in 1406 on his way to France and his subsequent imprisonment by Henry IV of England. With four versions of the Ballad of Good Counsel, from the earliest to the restored version, the latter being founded upon collation of the other three. Edited by Walter William Skeat, a British philologist and Anglican deacon. Previously held in the library of Sir Charles Bine Renshaw, a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician. Bound in half crushed morocco with marbled boards. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Fine. book.