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1437112617.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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165952785<p>A CHARACTER OF ENGLAND. As it was lately presented in a letter to a noble man of France. SECOND EDITION 1659. The Second edition is one of three printed in the same year. The editions are easily recognised the title page in the first edition has present-ed and a small "s" after London and a different collation the second edition has present-ted and a comma after London the third edition has it printed on title page. 12mo small thin book approximately 120 x 60 mm 5 x 2½ inches pages: 6 1-66 collation A-C12 6 leaves in section "B" have paper fault to lower margins with slight loss of paper no loss to text see attached image and all leaves in this section have pale age-browning ESTC R213652. A PERFECT DESCRIPTION of the PEOPLE and COUNTRY of SCOTLAND London printed for J.S. 1659. Anonymous James Howell or Sir Anthony Weldon see Library Hub Discover. Pages: 2 1-22 last page blank pale age-browning throughout including title page ESTC R204012. Bound together in polished calf covers with old amateur repair to spine marbled endpapers engraved bookplate James Brindley Esq M.A.F. S.A to first pastedown. Spine rubbed corners worn at tips first inner paper hinge cracked a good tight copy. The Noble Man of France finds London to be a city with narrow streets and without fountains or running water. He admires St. Paul's and the Banqueting-house at Whitehall but is disgusted at the meanness of their surroundings. he then returns to complaints about the inconveniences of London and of the 'cloud of sea-coal'. . He has much to say of the national practice of drinking in Ale-houses and of the vile manners of the ladies and being Gaudy. He dislikes English social manners at dances at dinners in Hyde-park and in the Spring Garden. He is very difficult to please." - see full article in Keynes page 61. See Geoffrey Keynes John Evelyn A Study in Bibliophily with a Bibliography of his Writings page 60-67 No. 15 " A True first edition of A Character of England containing 42 leaves and 71 numbered pages is an exceedingly rare book. It was soon reset and reprinted on 36 leaves with 66 numbered pages as our copy listed and this is also very uncommon"; Christies The Evelyn Library Part iv page 87 No.1682 listing a third edition; Sotheby's The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volume I page 217 No. 354 listing the second edition; Bloomsbury Auctions The Cetus Library page 40 lot No.118 this is the same copy as the Pirie copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> London, printed for Jo. Crooke, and are to be sold at the Ship in St. Paul's-yard, 1659. hardcover
0530131005.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1883007196New York: Henry Holt and Company 1883. This is the first novel by the Irish writer Emily Lawless 1845-1913. Published anonymously it is the story of a young artist living in London. Lawless was popular and current criticism views her as an under-appreciated influence on the modernists. Number 147 in Holt's "Leisure Hour Series." Not common. A Near Fine copy bound in the publisher's light tan cloth with decorative stampings in black. Titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; 337 pages; with the paste-downs and endpaers printed in red as a catalog. Just hints of rub at the margins; the front paste-down is stamped "Wing Cottag." Very close to a a Fine copy. In an archival plastic protector. First American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Henry Holt and Company Hardcover
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ria9781020280993_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This engaging two-volume history of England is written specifically for children but can be enjoyed by readers of all ages. It covers the period from ancient times up to the reign of Queen Victoria and includes many stories and anecdo hardcover
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