Lays Ancient Rome by Macaulay, First Edition (10 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good/Acceptabe. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Contents include the following Headings "Horatius. Battle of Lake Regillus. Virginia. The Prophecy of Capys. Ivry. The Armada.No Dust Jacket Navy faux leather cover. Spine strip missing, rubbed edges. Black endpapers, previous owners name neatly written on top edge of front left hand endpaper, otherwise clean tight copy in good/acceptable condition, 256pp Undated published by George Routledge/E P Dutton Book#101602.

First edition in publisher's original grey card wrap covers [soft back]. 12mo. 7'' x 5''. Contains (x), map, 205 + iv pp. 'Specimen' stamp to the title page, name label to the front free end paper and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROMAN EMPIRE (Romanum).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. J. R. Weguelin (illustrator). 1st Edition. prev owner sig fep.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing Thus. G. M. Trevelyan's Introduction presents this rich and varied selection from Macaulay's prose and verse, a selection which includes some perhaps unsuspected facets of fantasy and humour. The literary themes of the essays cover a wide range including Dante and Petrarch, and memorable portraits of Goldsmith and Johnson. The contents of the volume are as follows: MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS: History', * John Dryden', 'Mirabeau', 'Barère', Francis Atterbury', 'John Bunyan', Oliver Goldsmith', Samuel Johnson', 'Dante', 'Petrarch', 'A Conversation between Mr Abraham Cowley and Mr John Milton, touching the Great Civil War', 'Some Account of the Great Law suit between the Parishes of St Dennis and St George in the Water', 'On the Athenian Orators', 'A Prophetic Account of a Grand National Epic Poem to be entitled, "The Wellingtoniad", "William Pitt", "On the Royal Society of Literature', 'Scenes from "Athenian Revels". LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME: Horatius', "The Battle of Lake Regillus', 'Virginia', "The Prophecy of Capys', 'Ivry', The Armada', MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, including 'Epitaph on a Jacobite', 'A Radical War Song', 'Sermon in a Churchyard', etc. 528 pages ------------------ Orders over $100.00 are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Roughly 5½ " Wide and 7½ " Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. E.A. Cox (illustrator). 1st Edition. Small 4to. Black cloth boards with elaborate gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board, illustrated endpapers, untrimmed page edges.13 plates. Book.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good in boards. Owner name inked on front pastedown. Front hinge starting.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First US Edition. No DJ inmprinted cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. J.R Weguelin. (illustrator). New Edition. xxxix+191 pp. With forty-one illustrations; Full maroon school prize calf binding & six compartments of gilt decoration with gilt title brown label on spine, outer edges dentellers, gilt decorated embossed medallion of Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis front cover, shool prize label dated December,1912 on front paste down, marbled edges and endpapers. Size: 8vo 19 x 13cm.

Finely bound example of Macaulay's classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a view of ancient Rome. In very good condition. Bookplate and ownership inscription. The term 'fore-edge painting' can refer to any painted decoration on the fore-edges of the leaves of a book, such as was not uncommon in the 15th and early 16th centuries, particularly in Italy. The term is most commonly used, however, for an English technique quite widely practiced in the second half of the 17th century in London and Edinburgh, and popularized in the 18th century by John Brindley and, in particular, Edwards of Halifax, whereby the fore-edge of the book, very slightly fanned out and then held fast, is decorated with painted views, or conversation pieces. The edges are then squared up and gilded in the ordinary way, so that the painting remains concealed while the book is closed: fan out the edges and it reappears. The technique was practiced by a few other English binders in the late 18th and 19th centuries, and a certain number of undoubted examples survive. The majority of extant examples of fore-edge paintings date to the late 19th and early 20th century on reproductions of books originally published in the early 19th century, including the present volume.

Fine binding. First Edition Thus; Fifth Printing. Very Good. Owner name inked on second front end page. Light rubbing on spine. Fraying at end of silk ribbon page marker.