Ware William 1797 (7 results)

Softcover(Saddle-stitched). Condition: Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Wrappers little worn, paper age toned & a little brittle, light foxing. Size: 8vo. 31 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 pound or less. Category: Religion & Theology; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.…

Softcover(Saddle-stitched). Condition: Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Wrappers quite worn, soiled, interior soiled on title page & some edge soiling. Paper age toned, slightly brittle, name in ink top of title page. Size: 8vo. 36 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 pound or less. Category: Religion & Theology; 19th century; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. 1st Edition. 243 pages. 185 x 125 mm. Two neat handwritten lines on title page: [?]ilan [?Thau?]. Second handwritten line: "By By Rev. Wm Ware." Original back board and original spine with the original paper label BUT LACXKS FRONT BOARD and and all the pages have a light water stain. First edition of this popular and frequently reprinted epistolary novel set during the campaign of Zenobia, ruler of Palmyra, to make herself Roman empress (c. 271 C.E.). William Ware (1797-1852) was a Unitarian minister and literatus. The first nine letters appeared in the Knickerbocker Magazine. The Author, under the name of Piso, tells of his visit to Palmyra, the ancient Syrian city that was a Roman outpost, at the time of its greatest expansion under the reign of Queen Zanobia. Piso witnesses the fall of the city during the conquest of Lucius Domitius Aurelian and relates the events through his letter to Marcus Curtius at Rome. The last blanks are filled with penciled calculations and might be the writing of someone in the 19th century trying to calculate how much money he'll have at retirement.…

Hardcover. 1st edition. Vol. 2 [of 2] only: 256 p.; 18.5 cm. [republished in 1838 with title: Zenobia or the fall of Palmyra, a historical romance] Good edgeworn half sheep. Spine lacks titlepiece.

Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 382 p. ; 19cm. Series: Cassell's Red Library. 1 Kg.

Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 382 p. ; 19cm. Series: Cassell's Red Library. 1 Kg.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 243, 256pp. In the original boards, paper labels on spines. Rear board of vol. I. cracked at hinge and holding with original bands. This volume has a damp stain at lower inner corners (gutter). Rear endpaper of vol. II. with a small hole. Leaves bright with scattered foxing. Ownership inscriptions of Abby L. Davis on front endpapers, poem "I have often thought that flowers were the alphabet of angels, whereby they write, on hills and fields, mysterious truths" on front pastedown of vol. I. Good. See images. The first 9 letters appeared in the Knickerbocker magazine and were later published under title: Zenobia. A work of fiction which takes place in Roman occupied Palmyra, in the Syrian desert, in 3rd century AD.…