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Walter Scott, London, 1888, The Camelot Series,. 1888. Hardcover. hardback, 12mo, xlviii,199pp, owner's name on endpaper, edges browned, text clean, binding and hinges sound, red cloth, black and gilt titles and decorations, spine slightly faded, Good condition .

London: George Routledge & Sons Limited, 1886. Second Edition, Revised. Octavo, red buckram (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, portrait frontis., top edge gilt, xli, 214 pp. Very Good, with sunned spine and light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges. From Preface: It may be of service to the reader to explain the arrangement of this volume. In the Introduction which precedes the Autobiography, I have attempted -- firstly, to describe Lord Herbert’s varied character, as displayed in his own writings and historical records; and secondly, to review his eminent achievements in literature and philosophy, of which he himself has given no account. In the essay which succeeds the Autobiography, I have tried to trace his political career in detail from 1624 -- the year when his own memoirs abruptly terminate -- to 1648, the date of his death. In an appendix I have printed several original illustrative documents, many extracts from Herbert’s unpublished correspondence,… Leer más

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Scribner & Welford, 1886. Limited Edition. fair. 369, illus., footnotes, appendix, index, foxing to text & ins bds & flylves, bkplate ins fr bd, bds scuffed, spine faded & sm tears. This book was one of a Limited Edition of 1, 000 copies (600 for England, and 400 for America). Sidney Lee wrote an introduction, notes, appendices, and continued the life of Lord Herbert from 1624, the year when his own memoirs abruptly terminate, to 1648, the date of his death.

Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1978. No. 273 of 300 copies. Inscription on flyleaf and small mounted paper arms on the paste-down. Contents absolutely fresh and clean. The covers are poor, faded and rubbed with bubbling. No. 273 of 300 copies. Folio. xv (iii), 94p, colophon. Introduction by C.H.Herford. Illustrated by H. W. Bray with nine rather large and amazingly detailed and vivid wood engravings. Wood engraved shield on the title page hand colored in blue, red and grey and a large opening wood engraved initial in red. Bound in brown buckram with Herbert arms blocked in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g. Harrop 10.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1886. British author, soldier, poet, historian and philosopher, (1882-1648). One of an unnumbered edition limited to 1000 copies, 600 for England and 400 for America. Near Fine in half calf over marbled boards, with matching marbled end papers, back and top gilt, Near Fine, light rubbing at edges, interior clean and bright. The bookplate of Paul Steinbrecher front paste down. . Limited Edition. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1928. 1st Ed. Buckram. Near Fine. Horace Walter Bray. Folio. Brown buckram gilt lettered on spine with gilt armorial shield on front panel. Limited edition, number 234 of 300 copies only. Printed on hand made paper with 9 woodcuts by Bray. Some bubbling to buckram but o/w a clean fresh copy. Lord Herbert was the brother of the English Poet George Herbert.

Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1928. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, front cover escutcheon decorated in gilt. Teg. Very good. Bray, Horace Walter. 94 pages. 34 x 24.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 192 of 350, wood-engravings designed and cut by Horace Walter Bray type, and printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard. Color lithograph escutcheon title page. The life of a Jacobean man of fashion, who may be called the last of the knights errant and the first of the deists. Fresh, clean copy, wide text margins, red initial letters, nicks to backstrip extremities.