Ridgeway Rev (5 results)

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. About 34 pages. Holy Communion in gilt to front cover and How to Prepare above it and How to Give Thanks beneath. Date is 1888. The book has two parts "How to Prepare for the Holy Communion" by Rev. C.J. Ridgeway (15 pages), and How to Give Thanks after Holy Communion" by same author (16 pages). Maroon binding with ornate delicate gilt decoration & titles to front, plain spine, some blanching/lightening to rear. Slight wear to edges, light wear to spine-ends & boards' corners. Ink inscription to printed end-papers dated 1889. Red page-edges, red border to page-margins. Text is very clean. Nice condition.

3.5 x 5.5 inches. 15 pp, 16 pp. Text enclosed in red rule. A few spots of foxing in text. Decorated eps. Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on front board. Overall condition VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NO Dustwrapper. Fifth Imp. Skeffington & Son 1906. 106 + 2pp adverts hb spine faded, pages browned & a couple of pages loose, good.

25th thousand of 1st edition, 96 pages , Red binding & clear gilt title , good with minor rubbing, Contents Very Good , just minor ageing endpapers only. postade will be reduced Size: 9.5 x 14cm.approx.

First edition. 36pp. With a coloured frontispiece, a further six coloured plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. Original publisher's blue cloth-backed pictorial paper boards, original publisher's pictorial wrappers. A trifle rubbed, dustwrapper lightly discoloured, a trifle marked, chipped and torn at edges. Upper hinge exposed, endpapers browned, prize plate of Midland Educational Co. to recto of FFEP . The sole edition, preserved in the original early pictorial dustwrapper - atypically concealing richly coloured pictorial boards - of the third series of scripture stories for boys by Church of England clergyman Charles John Ridgeway (1841-1927). Size: Quarto.