Babees Book, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. In excellent condition. Limited to 250 copies. 19 Pages.

Condition: Good. First edition thus (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), 19pp. Frontispiece illustration (titled "Elizabeth Tingle Fairbanks"). Original white parchment spine, grey boards, title label to the spine. Boards rubbed and dusty, light inkstain to the rear board, a couple of crayon marks to page 15, gift inscription to the front free endpaper (which explains the origin of the inkstain on the rear board). Overall, this copy is in good condition. Limited to 250 copies.

Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5"), quarter white paper, gray paper over boards, paper title label at spine. Deckled edges. Frontis.,19 pp. The frontis. bears the name of Elizabeth Tingle Fairbanks, one of the dedicatees. CONDITION: Very good, some wear to title-label (partial loss, inkstain), covers with minimal wear. First edition thus. Colophon states "of this book 250 copies were printed for Thomas Nast Fairbanks by the Marchbanks Press in December, Nineteen Hundred and Thirteen." A lovely little privately printed volume.

Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. Old plain black cloth with bugundy title label. Sound and tight throughout but a bit worn. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1500g.

Half Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition Thus, Recent Black Morocco Half Leather Binding with Burgundy Cloth Sides. Five raised Bands with burgundy leather titles slip and hand gilt tiles. Appied two colour head and tail bands. 230 x 150 mm approx.1876. Book block sewn on three tapes which have been laced into made boards. There are also three cords which have been laced into the boards, these together with the flat back imitate a17th century binding on the bookshelf. c + 388 pp. VG (Book - Blind Impressed stamp of British and Foreign School Society, Training College Stockwell London SW to half title, Rough fore and bottom edges of book block. Minor marginal finger soiling to some pages and a little dust ingression soiling. No other previous owner name, insc. nor annotations). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). First. 16 black & white woodcut illustrations. 405+133pp., tall, thick 8vo, 3/4 brown polished calf, green leatherspine label, marbled boards (slightly rubbed). London: Early English Text Society by N. Trubner & Co., 1868. First Edition. Very good(+). Manners and Meals in Olden Time.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this educational work on manners and meals provided through Early English, French, and Latin poetry, edited by Frederick Furnivall. The first edition of this work. A collection of Early English poems and treatises, and French and Latin poems, on the subject of manners and meals in the 'olden time'. The work is intended as an educational work. Edited by Frederick James Furnivall. Furnivall was one of the creators of the 'New English Dictionary'. He also founded a number of literary societies on early English literature. With sixteen plates to the front. Errata slip bound in before the title page. In a half crushed morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, with some rubbing to the spine and boards. Two institutional labels to the tail of the spine, and evidence of a label being formerly adhered to the spine. Institutional labels to the front pastedown and to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd spot, mostly to the first and last few pages. Institutional stamps to the reverse of the plates. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine condition. 1st. Presentation signed by the editor on the half title page. Bound in quarter blue leather and red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Front inner hinge weak. Stain to a corner of the front cover. Moderate wear to the extremities of the covers. Signed.