Samuel F S a F G H S Tymms (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Complete set of the original series of four volumes - all published by Samuel Tymms, Lowestoft: (Vol I published in 1862; Vol II: 1866; Vol III: 1869; Vol IV: 1885-7. Vol. IV has additional publisher Pawsey & Hayes, Ancient House, Ipswich. ***Please note that the boards of these volumes are either detached or about to detach. Each of the four volumes are in original matching bindings, with original marbled endpapers. and are internally complete. Suitable for a professional book-binder to sympathetically rebind using the original boards and spines (if so wished). ***Good in quarter leather and marbled boards and six compartments to spines, with five raised bands. Decorative gilt rules to spines, leather edges and corners of front and rear boards. Top edges gilt. Attractive contemporaneous owner's bookplate to each of the four volumes on front pastedowns, with the name Francis Hubert Barclay and coat of arms of a helmet and a bird with a sprig with motto: "in cruce spero cedant arma" - each pasted over an earlier bookplate showing what looks like a lion offering clusters of grapes to a stag. ***Vol. I: Back board detached. Top of spine of front board beginning to split. Edges slightly worn and rubbed. 456 pages. Vol. II: Front board detached. 383 pages. Vol. III: Front board almost detached. Edges of boards worn. Spine worn and beginning to crack but still tight. 379 pages. Vol. IV: Boards worn at edges. Spine beginning to crack and loosen. 300 pages. ***On all four volumes the fore-edges and bottom edges of text-blocks slightly foxed. Front prelims heavily foxed and rear pages foxed. Sporadic foxing to interior pages, with most pages clean of foxing. Two engraved illustrations between pages 222-223 in Vol. II are clean. No dustwrapper, as issued. ***218mm x 140mm. ***'How did the Britons obtain their Gold &c ? As it is well known the early Britons possessed many articles of gold, particularly Torques, now of the value of £40, and upwards, Armlets and Fibulas of the same metal, with other reliques; - How did the early natives become possessed of such valuables? Was it by barter with the Phoenicians, with whom the most part of their commerce was carried on with tin, cattle, raw hides, and such other articles as they could produce. Six or seven Torques have been discovered in Norfolk, and the large hoard of the silver coins of the Iceni, amounting to three of four hundred pounds, at Weston, in this county, tends to show that a considerable quantity of the precious metals was known at this early period. How, and by what mode of traffic were these valuables obtained? G. J.' (Quote from page 36 Vol I, The East Anglian No 3.).***An extremely scarce complete set of all four volumes of the original series, bound in their original burgundy marbled and quarter leather boards with gilt decorative ruled and titled spines. Volume 4 is often missing from sets as it was published separately sixteen years after Volume 3 - this was to coincide with the commencement of publishing the second series in 1885. ***An extremely detailed, scholarly and interesting complete antiquarian set of local history on Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex and Norfolk - of interest to scholars, academics and collectors of local history, genealogists, and those researching the history of regional dialects. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Condition: Good. Volume 1, No. 1-34 only. Published in London by Whittaker. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.