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Published by William Isbister, London, 1889
Seller: John M. Gram, Port Huron, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Second Edition. 480 pp, bib., index, moderate library markings, moderate wear, hinges cracked, acidic text paper, ink inscription to title page, sound reading copy.
Published by William Isbister Limited, London, 1885
Seller: siop lyfrau'r hen bost, Blaenau Ffestiniog, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Edward Whymper (illustrator). Weakness to inside front hinge and slight foxing to first few pages. Text clean.
Published by London, William Isbister Ltd., 1886., 1886
First Edition
8vo. xviii+398pp. B/w illustrations. Original cloth gilt, name on ffe., a very good copy. . First edition.
Published by William Isbister, London, 1880
Seller: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, United Kingdom
Full Leather. 308pp. Prize bookplate. All edges & end pages marbled. Interior very good & clean. Spines cracked but still well held by strings. Spine appears to have had some superficial fire/smoke damage (see pic). Edinburgh Institution crest in gilt on front cover. Size: 7 x 5 Inch.
Published by William Isbister N.D., London
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. First Edition. Publisher's full calf prize binding (Christ Church, Canterbury), spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on burgundy label in one compartment, ornate gilt tooling in the remainder, gilt medallion on cover, marbled endpapers and edges. nd (c. 1883). Profusely illustrated in B&W. . Spine worn, front board detached. Prize binding with award label on fep, otherwise unmarked, text block tight, square and clean. GOOD. . The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Readers Series. B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 340 pp.
Published by William Isbister Limited, London, 1889
Seller: Broadhursts of Southport Ltd ABA ILAB BA, Southport, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Original Blue Cloth, Gilt. Condition: Very Good +. B/w Frontis., 33 b/w line Drawings in Text (illustrator). First Edition. The author of"The Spider and the Fly.
Published by William Isbister, London, 1884
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (Ref. CC1) Brown cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Darkened top edge. Greyed foredge. A few very faint marks to boards with a little rubbing to edges. Owner's name to front pastedown. Light faint foxes to first and last few pages otherwise main contents are very good and unmarked.
Published by William Isbister, London, 1982
ISBN 10: 0004112385ISBN 13: 9780004112381
Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Pale Blue Cloth. Condition: Near Fine (NEAR NEW). Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (AVERAGE). Vana Haggerty (illustrator). First Edition. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED!.Please email for further details Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Not Inscribed or Signed. HARDBACK.
Published by William Isbister Limited, London, 1889
Seller: The Second Reader Bookshop, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Both volumes in dark red cloth, sunned along spine & tops, with black etched design on front; gilt signature reading "Richard Steele" stamped on fronts, and gilt titling on spines. Pages unmarred between blue endpapers, with frontispiece in each, plus two more illustration in Vol. II. Plus, at front of Vol. I, the previous owner has pasted a posthumous article about the literary scholar on the endpage, & also pasted in a handwritten note from said scholar, Aitken, on "Home Office, Whitehall" stationery, with offical embossing. Literary Studies; Large Octavos.
Fine Binding. Condition: Fine. John E. Millais R. A. (illustrator). A rather humorous conduct guide for young women in an intricate calf binding This delightful copy of 'Papers for Thoughtful Girls' is in a full calf binding, with intricate gilding along the spine and edges. A prize bookplate on the inside cover awards First Prize in Arithmetic to a Miss C. Cowper from 72 Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh, dated July 1891. This edition contains a handful of stunning illustrations by Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. Sarah Tytler was the pseudonym of Henrietta Keddie, a Scottish novelist who was renowned for her books on domesticity and conduct for women. One would hope that the reasoning behind the immaculate condition of this copy is that all previous owners have already known its contents.! In a full calf binding. Externally lovely. A prize bookplate on the inside board from Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh for arithmetic. Internally firmly bound and pages clean and bright. Fine. book.
Published by London: Burnet & Co; James Clarke; Hodder & Stoughton; & William Isbister :-1888 Mixed editions, 1885
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 13 volumes, 8vo., (viii, 423pp. + 1pp. ads) + (iv, 527pp.) + (viii, 558pp.) + (iv, 552pp.) + (viii, 406pp.) + (vi, 306pp.) + (iv, 407pp.) + (vi, 462pp.) + (iii, 560pp.) + (x, 490pp.) + (viii, 455pp. + 1pp. ads) + (viii, 518pp.) + (viii, 461pp. + 1pp. ads), half-titles and printed titles to each volume, matching marbled endpapers and fore-edges, bound in good quality purple morocco by Mudie of London, gilt decorated spines in compartments with raised bands, with gilt lettering to spines. A near fine bright clean collection in handsome bindings by Mudie. The prolific novelist Emma Jane Worboise (1825-1887) was born in Birmingham. She began writing at an early age and her first book, Alice Cunningham was published in 1846, when she was twenty-one. She went on to publish over fifty volumes of evangelical stories and novels as well as contributing to magazines. Her entry in the Dictionary of National Biography comments that her novels contained commonplace plots and characters, but are generally "wholesome and readable". Many of her books were reprinted several times, an indication of her popularity. Mrs. Guyton, her married name, sometimes appeared as the author on her work. She was a contributor to the Christian World Magazine and Family Visitor. In 1866 there was a contributor called Ernest Etherington but no evidence has been found of a Mr Etherington Guyton, her supposed husband so it is thought that this was used as a pen name, maybe in relation to her alcoholism. She died in Clevedon, Somerset and was buried in the local cemetary.