Biography from Digital Editions

London and New York: Chesterfield Society, n.d. 8vo (8.5 x 5.75) 348 pages, including the introduction (35 pages) and the critical essay (30 pages). Binding: Three-quarter maroon leather on marbled boards showing nominal shelf wear (see image). Interior: Bright, clean, unmarked pages; gilt top.

Golden, CO: Fulcrum Inc., 1988. Octavo (9 x 7), xxvii + 410 pages. Red cloth binding with gold and and engraving on spine and front cover. The volume features the artwork of Seymour and Peale, including several color images not found in the original 1823 edition.

New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1929. Octavo (9.75 x 6.5), x + 482 pages + 32 interleaved pages of black and white illustrations. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering on spine and gold lettering and engraving on cover. Slight wear to edges of spine and cover, Includes Table of Contents, List of Illustrations, and Index.

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Company, 1899. Octavo (9.5 x 7), xix + 482 pages. Green cloth binding with gold stamping on the spine and front cover. Nominal shelf-wear, mostly at the ends of the spine. Interior is spotless with no obvious toning. There is, however, foxing on a few interleaved plates. The tome features the abodes and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hawaii: Arizona Memorial Museum Association, 1988. Staplebound. Near Fine. 8vo, 6 x 9, 104 pages, illustrated. Minor cover wear; else as issued.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo, 5.5 x 9, xvi + 216 pages, illustrated. Apparently out of print and exceedingly rare. Unused. Back strip nominally faded. No dust jacket.

Paris: Robert Laffont Paris, 1958 . 12mo, 4.5 x 7, 506 pages Flexible plasticized cover with moderately stained back strip. Interior clean, but slightly toned.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. First paperback edition.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo, 5.5 x 8, xii + 192 pages, illustrated. Cover has moderate shelf-wear (minor scuffing and soiling), else book is as issued.

Paris: Mame et Delaunay-Vallee, 1829. half leather. Very Good. Two volumes in one, 8vo, 5 x 8, 422 and 392 pages. One-inch tear at the top of the front hinge; back strip additionally chipped, but still very presentable. Exterior of the boards are marbleized. Bookplate of "Lord Dinorbin" (apparently the owner of Welsh coal… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Fayard, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 8vo, 5 x 8.5, 684 pages. Text is in French. Unused. However, the dust jacket is shelf-worn (minor chips), the pages are moderately age-toned, and somehow, the dust jacket had glued itself to both the front and rear free end papers (we detached them both successfully, but… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Dominique Wapler, 1958. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.5, 782 pages. Moderate fading/staining of cover; uncut pages (pretty much says it all)

London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 Volumes, 12mo, 4.5 x 7.5, xxxvi + 274 and viii + 244 pages. Translated with an introduction and notes by Anne MacDonell. Shelf-worn and faded consistently with its age.

Paris: Didier & Cie, 1865. Quarter leather. Very Good. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.75, xxiv + 614 pages Really nice, well preserved quarter-leather binding with marbleized boards; interior clean, but intermittently foxed.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1972. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. 8vo, 6 x 9.5, xx + 300, illustrated. Minor bumping of cover and dust jacket; chipping of the later.

New York: The John Day Company, 1971. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.5, xxii + 242 pages.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo, 5.5 x 8.5, 406 pages, illustrated

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 4to 6.5 x 10, xx + 415 pages, illustrated; forward by H. R. H. the Prince of Wales. Brooke was senior editor in the Royal Commission of Historical Manuscripts. Burgundy cloth cover is minimally worn; dust jacket has some chipping and strange, inexplicable wrinkles.

New York: Modern Library, n. d. (ca. 1955?). Hardcover. Very Good +. 12mo, 5 x 7, xvi + 332 pages Moderately faded back strip

London: Goupil & Co., 1899. Limited ed. Paperback. Very Good +. 4to, 10 x 14, vi + 218 pages, luxuriously illustrated. "This edition . . . has been printed and the plates have been engraved by Jean Boussod, Manzi, Joyant & Co., fine art publishers to the Queen. Edition limited to 1475 copies, of which this is… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. 8vo, 6x 9.5, 344 pages, illustrated. Biography of James Francis Edward Stuart, son of James II (monarch of England, dethroned in 1688) Dust cover a bit chipped. The glue holding at least one tipped-in image had lost its hold. Else as issued.