Alex Queen (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red cloth covers bottom of spine chipped Bookplate on inside and one library stamp - not public lending library. Slight foxing in the front.

Small 8vo. 6.5 x 4.5 inches. [iv] + 72 + 40 + 120 + 16 pp. publisher's catalogue with series list. Title pages in red and black. Facsimiles of original title pages. Bound in original dark green cloth, gilt,boards with bevelled edges and blind stamped decorative borders. All edges red. Wear to extremities, including head and tail of spine. Some foxing throughout; otherwise a very good copy. Decorated by vignettes. Three titles originally appearing 1590-1689, in the thirty volume English Reprints series, published 1868-71 and edited by Edward Arber (1836-1912), academic scholar, writer and editor. The series provided accessible editions of many texts not previously available to less wealthy buyers. The three authors in this volume are Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), Edward Webbe (c.1553-54-), author of an early Middle Eastern travel narrative and John Selden (1584-1654), jurist, antiquarian and scholar of the Near East. ART / LITERATURE LITERATURE LIT. NON-FICTION 16TH CENTURY 17TH CENTURY ART / LITERATURE.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Folio. ( 325mm.) Pp. [3]iv [1] 6 - 98 [2]. Contents clean apart from very light age browning around the foredges. Recent blue limp card wrappers with new paper label. A very good copy. The Report includes Poorhouses; Central Asylum, Dundrum, for Criminal Lunatics; and Private Asylums.The Dundrum Asylum had 177 inmates, 140 'inmates' 140 males, and 137 females ' of the foregoing 177 inmates, the illiterate constitute nearly two- thirds'. The Asylum at Dundrum (now called the Central Mental Hospital) originally opened as the Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum for Ireland at Dundrum in Dublin in 1850.…