Townsend Rev George (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp.586 - with colored illustrations tight copy with tanning to text pages, frontpiece inside gutter lower 2 1/2" tear but all pages still attached, first colored plate and title page has some foxing, freckles to some parts, blue cloth covers with red print and in pattern on front cover, gold gilt on spine, lower board on back cover shows the cardboard for the cloth has worn away for 2 3/4" , else shelfwear, crimping and wear to top/bottom spines, some soiling to hinges, bumped corners and shelfwear to board extremities Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Condition: Good. New and Revised Edition. 632 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with mild tanning and visible foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to reverse of front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.…

Condition: New. SB 199pp + Diagram 2016 N&MP Reprint of c1890 Original EditionPublished Price £12.99 The Siege of Colchester was a prolonged and tragic central episode of the Civil War that engulfed England in the summer of 1648. Royalist risings in Kent and Essex culminated in the seizure of the Essex town on behalf of King Charles I. Colchester was besieged by the New Model Army under its commander Sir Thomas Fairfax, and a prolonged siege led to the the civilian population being forced to eat horses, dogs, cats and even rats. Starved out, the garrison surrendered, and the Cavalier leaders, Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle, were shot on Fairfax's orders for their rebellion. This account of a rarely recorded but important event in English history should not be missed by any of the many readers interested in the English Civil Wars. Book.…

Cloth over Board. Condition: Very Good For Age. No Jacket. This book is in very good condition for its age with tight binding and clean text. Believed to be printed in the 20's Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. "with ten full page colored plates" One is taped in with clear tape. Front hinge is weak. No foxing. Former owners name inside front board.

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 632 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Top corner of front endpaper cut out. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine and board edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. A NEW EDITION REVISED WITH NOTES.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated version but thought to be from late 1800's or early 1900's. Mustard color buckram cloth hardback. Lion with hurt paw on front cover. Has a typo on the translator name. Every other edition has the translator as "George Fyler Townsend", but this edition has the author as "Rev. Geo. Tyler Townsend, M.D.". All original plates are intact. Book has an additional book after page 224 "One Hundred Picture Fables with Rhymes" by Otto Speckter. This particular edition appears to be very scarce. Overall good condition; appears to have had some glue repair to reattached pages to spine. Highly collectible. Nice edition. (BR) Box 216.…

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Delivered in the Years 1937 & 1938 in the Church of Northallerton, postage reduced within the UK.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Good. vii, 312 pages, colour and b/w plates, 1 colour and 3 b/w plates. No publication date on title page but there is an old name and a date '2-5-28' on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Good condition, some wear, see images, but a nice intact 1931 copy of the classic Tales of the Arabian Nights.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Clean blue stamped cloth decorated with gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece. Engraved illustrations. An introductory essay by Rev. C. P. Milvaine, Bishop of Ohio. Rev. Fox, a Missionary to the Teloogoo People of South India. Religion ; Engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 429 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A New Edition, Revised, with Notes, by the Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend, M.A. London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1894. Illustrated edition in the publisher's attractive dark blue decorative cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt and black to the front board and spine. A handsome late-19th-century edition of the classic Arabian Nights, illustrated throughout. Decorative front board features elaborate gilt pictorial designs incorporating figures and fantastic imagery, with similarly ornate gilt decoration and titling to the spine. Very Good condition for its age. Binding remains attractive and sound, with expected light rubbing and wear at the extremities, particularly the spine ends and corners. Gilt decoration remains strong. Text-block edges show noticeable age-related foxing and spotting, with some scattered foxing/spotting internally. Pages otherwise remain generally clean and well preserved for a volume of this age. Includes an early presentation inscription dated April 26, 1894. No dust jacket present. An attractive Victorian decorative-cloth edition with excellent shelf appeal.…

No Binding. Condition: Good. A splendid antique portrait, 1850 Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 344 pages, a very good plus hardback, publisher's original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine and decoratively blind stamped to the covers. Book is in excellent condition - tightly bound and square, with extremely clean pages - virtually no foxing. Undated, and with no edition comments. …

pp. 275, (i). Frontispiece and 16 plates, all coloured, many text illustrations in line. Original pictorial cloth, spine faded else a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Bound in green cloth, heavily decorated blindstamped boards, gilt titles, a lovely clean tight copy.; 8" x 5"; 224 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A smart copy of Aesop's Fables featuring 50 illustrations by Harrison Weir RI, and a charming colour frontispiece. in the publisher's original red cloth binding with blind stamp decoration.This volume is undated, dated using Jisc from a copy held at The University of East Anglia Library.This edition is notable for featuring 50 illustrations by Harrison Weir RI, and a charming colour frontispiece. Collated, complete.Weir was known for both his extensive work as an illustrator, and as "The Father of the Cat Fancy", having organised the first cat show in England, at the Crystal Palace, London, in July 1871.This copy includes fables such as "Wolf and the Crane", "Hare and the Tortoise", "Vine and the Goat", Old Hound", "Fox and the Leopard", "Hare and the Hound", "Wolf and the Shepard", "Dove and the Crow", among many others.Aesop was a storyteller who is thought to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. He is best known for his collection of fables featuring anthropomorphic animals that illustrate moral lessons of honesty, wisdom and kindness. These fables have become enduring classics, continuing to be shared with generation after generation. Publisher"s advertisements to rear two leaves, typical of the era. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Rubbing and bumping to extremities, particularly to joints, resulting in minor loss to cloth. Fading to spine. Rubbing and the one or two handing marks to boards. One or two small closed tears at head and tail of spine joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot and one or two handling marks, heavier to fore edge. Slight creasing and damp staining to corner of frontispiece, not affecting the picture. Very Good. Harrison Weir (illustrator). book.…

1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. xii + 300pp. Institutional ink stamp and accession nos. to t.p., ex.-libris Algernon H. Belfield, light browning, original blind embossed cloth, minor marking to boards, rebacked with much of original gilt lettered spine laid down, faint stain to tail due to accession no. removal. Apparently the author failed in his attempt to convert the Pope to Protestantism. US$52. …

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Well illustrated Edition with Full-Page Plates, 3 are Chromolithographs and 8 Black & White. Fronti illus. "The Envious Man", protected by tissue guard. Undated Editon, circa 1870s. Blue cloth cover with Gilt & Black illus.of a Fisherman and a Genie. Bright Guilt Title above. Spine has a Gilt illus.of a young Hero carrying a Golden Bird in a cage. Gilt Ground to title above. Beveled edges. Decorative endpapers. 632 Pages, 680g, 7 3/4" Tall. Slight edge wear. Small closed tear to cloth at top right corner of spine ( 1/2" long ). From the library of Thomas Day-Lewis, Gift inscription, dated 1902 on ffep. No other inscriptions. Some small spots of browning on fore & bottom page edges. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj cover as issued. Eighth thousand. GC plus.Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.No date given but presentation sticker inside the front cover displaying 1897.Eighth thousand.Pictorial green hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,mark on the edges of the front cover,some nicks,deants and scratches on the cover and spine) in GC plus, no Dj cover as issued.Illustrated with b/w drawings.Nice and clean pages with small ink marks and slightly tainted on the outer edges,small foxing marks,ink marks and creases on the edges of the pages,previous owner's presentation sticker inside the front cover.The book is in GC for its age with some shelf wear.288pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sole edition. 8vo, pp. 344 + 1 ad + errata slip + 8 eng. plates + a page tipped in with neat handwritten notes on the dimensions of the Priory Church through the ages, edges uncut. Book - VG, contents clean, no foxing, some offsetting from plates to opposite pages, inside front board is bookplate of John Hopton of Hereford with coat of arms and his signature , binding firm ; brown cloth with blind pattern to front and back boards and gilt title to spine , corners lightly rubbed, back has one small mark of any significance, spine is very lightly faded but the gilt is complete and bright, spine ends originally were split but have been expertly repaired, front with a few insignificant marks, cloth is in good condition and the hinges are sound . A very detailed history of Leominster, the book is split in to two main sections, the first being a General History and the second Local History . In the latter are chapters on Leominster Priory Church and a supplementary chapter on the town. A very nice copy of a scarce book. …

Leather_bound. Condition: Fair. 4th Edition. 426p., 526p. A set of two ex-library books bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Edges and corners quite rubbed with some chipping; crack in leather along front edge of spine on Volume 1, although the cover remains attached. Labels on spines. Card pockets inside rear covers. Books contain the bookplate of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. A suitable reading set. The author was a 19th-century Anglican priest and scholar.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Belgium Tries to Get on her Feet - a 94 Million$ loan will cost her 226 Million?; What is the Matter with Mexico?; Facts, Not Words - article by the secretary of the Episcopal Committee of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico; The Punishment of Sisyphus - is paralleled in that of a young man whose efforts get him nowhere; The Negro as the Lucky Child of Destiny; Any Mother to Any Daughter; Henry Ford's Page - what distinguishes false from true prophets; Editorials - the modern bucketeer (operator of a financial bucket shop), Cobb and Judge Landis and the baseball scandal, more light is needed on the Nicaraguan situation, Senator Capper and voter apathy; How Primitive was Prehistoric Man? - The Hunter; Man's Own Flat Wheels - part 2; The Garrulous Diplomatist; South Sea Island King (Tufele) of the Manua group of Islands - great photo-illustrated article; Training Junior For a Home - how the Children's Home Society give lonely little children a more congenial atmosphere; Chats with Office Callers - origin of Jewish names; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - the Hall-Mills case was 'dud', Barring the Garb of Old Gaul, Michigan's boundaries are divided, smoking suits for women; Briefly Told; Great winter sport photos inside back cover. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Van Der Heyden, Gerald; Clarke, W.W.; Broecker, Richard; Harper, George; Flucke, Harold (illustrator). …

In very good condition 1890s edition in publisher's cloth featuring gilt lettering and scarce design to front and spine. Minor shelf wear to corners, edges and spine ends. A few slight spots to front and rear boards. End papers and flyleaves clean, a little age toned. A very sound copy. Over 100 charming illustrations throughout by Harrison Weir. 4 full page colour plates including the frontispiece which features a full page colour illustration titled The Dog and the Shadow. Internally leaves very slightly spotted in part. Underlined and annotated in pencil by previous owner occasionally to first half. Creases to page corners where once turned down. Printed by Richard Clay and Sons Ltd Suffolk. 220 pp. plus index. 4 pp. collated and complete. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Hardcover binding. Language: English. Approximately 942 pages. Volume 5 of a multi-volume work. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1846. This work is a reprint of the classic 'The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe', also known as 'Foxe's Book of Martyrs'. Compiled by the Rev. George Townsend, this edition provides a comprehensive account of Christian martyrs from the early Church to the Reformation. It remains a foundational text for the study of religious persecution and early modern history. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1838. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages:- 942, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 942 942.…