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1824000011084London: John Murray 1824. Disbound. Good. 8vo. 24 cm x 13.5 cm. 1 298-334 pp. Pamphlet. The Quarterly Review was a British periodical that began in 1809. This is a review of Thomas Malthus' Principles of Political Economy and the writers of this review frequently compare Malthus' work to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. A fascinating look at what Malthus' contemporaries thought of his work a work which would later be praised by J.M. Keynes the twentieth-century economist. This article was once bound in a compendium of the Quarterly review but now lacks boards and wraps. The stitching is present on the side and the final leaf is starting from the stitching. John Murray unknown
1894282410London: The Review of Reviews 1894. First Edition. Softcover. Poor set in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Provenance; from the Constitutional Club Library with the owner's armorial bookplate. Physical description; three volumes. Subjects; Periodicals. Review of Periodicals. Indexes. 19th-20th century peridocials. London: The Review of Reviews paperback
1856019857New York: Leonard Scott & Co. 1856 New York: Leonard Scott 1856. 8vo. Sewn wrappers pp. 159-312. Whately's Edition of Bacon's Essays; French Algebra; Church Building; New Biographies of Montaigne; Ancient Rome; Physiognomy of the Human Form; Nuns of Port-Royal; Declining Efficiency of Parliament. Very good. Leonard Scott & Co. paperback
1857019858New York: Leonard Scott & Co. 1857 New York: Leonard Scott 1857. 8vo. Sewn wrappers pp. 1-156 plus index. History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire; Ferns and their Portraits; Homer and his Successors in Epic Poetry; Rats; Salmon Fishing Breeding and Legislation; Lord Raglan; Life of Sir Charles Napier; Prospects political and Financial. Very good. Leonard Scott & Co. paperback
1856012711New York: Leonard Scott & Co. 1856 New York: Leonard Scott 1856. 8vo. Sewn wrappers pp. 157-340. British Family Histories memorials of the Bagot Family Stemmata Shirleiana; or the Annals of the Shirley Family; Histories of noble British families with biographical notices of the most distinguished in each; Lives of the Lindsays. Lewis on Early Roman History Sir George Cornewall Lewis; The Haldanes the lives of Robert Haldane of Airthrey and of his brother James Alexander Haldane; Modern Painters including works by Ruskin; The Triton and the Minnows a report of the court of the directors of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company; a treatise on Naval Gunnery by General Sir Howard Douglas; Selections from the letters of Robert Southey; The Peace and its Effects on the Condition of Turkey Turkey and its Inhabitants the Moselms Greeks Armenians etc. by M. A. Ubicini translated from the Frency by Lady Easthope; Eastern Papers presented to Parliament. The Political Future of England by the Count de Montalembert. Front cover and title with 1.5" chip inside top corner else very good. Good condition. Leonard Scott & Co. paperback
1824005106Paris: Guillaume Libraire 1824. In French. Volume I is dated 1826 volumes II and III are dated 1824 volume IV dated 1825. Volumes I and II - Theatre; volume III - Poesies; volume IV - Melanges and Literature. There may have been other volumes published. Frontis portrait of the author after M. Horace Vernet in volume I along with a folding plate of a facsimile manuscript. Black patterned boards with black calf spines lettered and ruled in gilt decorated in both gilt and in blind marbled edges and endpapers. Some expected cover wear and rubbing mainly to the covers spines in very good condition joints secure text blocks sound with no loosened pages pages clean with minimal foxing no names or other markings. A clean sound and handsome set. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Guillaume, Libraire Hardcover
1891mon0000000125Review of reviews 1891-01-01. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. in x in x in. Complete first edition set of 13 volumes from 1890 to 1902. Ex-library books usual markings. Volumes 5-13 in matching brown cloth hardback and internally and externally good. Volumes 2-4 in original floral cloth v2 grey v3 red v4 grey and all internally and externally good. Volume 1 is the reason the set is described as acceptable as the binding is shot all pages free and loose but all still present. Red paper cover still present front and back. Review of reviews unknown
