Proof of Eminence: Life of Sir John Hawkins Tapa dura - 1973

Indiana University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Indiana University Press, 1973-04-26. Hardcover. Good.

Indiana University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Univ of Indiana Pr. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0253346177 . Fine in Near fine dust jacket; inscribed by author; 436 pp; jacket browned, light soil & small tear .

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1973. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears, chips and small holes. Ink mark and small scuff/loss of material on fep.. xii, 436 p. Abbreviations. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Thorny, high-principled, and utterly uncompromising, Sir John Hawkins had a personality to inspire respect from his contemporaries but scarcely one to win their affection. Hawkins served for a long period as chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, a position for which he was chosen, and later knighted, because of his training in law. In this office he heard and passed judgment on a wide variety of cases and established himself as a magistrate of uncompromisiong integrity. However, the works for which Hawkins will be remembered are three: an edition of Walton's Compleat Angler which rescued the book from obscurity; a History of Music, a monumental five-volume work and the… Leer más

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973. xii, 436pp [closing tears to bottom rear dust jacket]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Frontispiece portrait. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.