Search Results: Titles starting with O from Abbey Bookshop

The six volumes which comprise the set cover the period from November, 1941 to December. 1984; each volume is in very good condition or better, bound in green leather like boards covered with clear plastic protective dust jacket (save volume 6), includes a different tipped-in portrait frontispiece, and holds over 900 pages of india-skin paper. Volume 6 is a signed presentation from Isuf (Jusuf) Vrioni. otherwise complete set is free of markings or any kind of notes

London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, n.d.. A new edition. Hardcover. Good. Sm. 8vo., original red cloth, blind- and gilt-stamped, illustrated with four plates. some loose gatherings, bookblock has come unstuck from spine

London: James Nisbet and Co., 1868. First edition thus. Good +. 8vo., original purple cloth richly decorated in gilt and blind-stamped, all edges gilt, numerous illustrations in the text. spine faded, some pages loose

Paris: Imprimerie de Honnert, 1796. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. 12mo., contemporary calf, gilt border and flower motifs to boards. spine missing, front board detached, lower board stained

Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, (1967). Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., original red morocco, with eight plates illustrated on both sides. With a preface, introduction and notes by Marcel Raymond. Handsome edition in French of Baudelaire's complete works, illustrated with reproductions of his protraits. spine slightly faded

Paris: Maresq et Cie, 1846. Nouvelle edition. Very Good. Large 8vo., finely bound in late nineteenth-century green morocco overlaid with the Greek mask of comedy in black morocco, detailed in gilt, which spreads across the spine to the lower board, binding unsigned, illustrated with twelve plates. Moliere's complete works in an unusual and very attractive French fine binding. pages lightly foxed and browned throughout, spine and top edge of lower board faded

London: T. Fisher Unwin, [c. 1904]. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo., original pictorial brown cloth, with 15 full-page illustrations. A collection of stories based on works by Ovid, Livy and Virgil. Extremities a little rubbed and worn

London: Chapman and Hall, [c. 1849]. Third edition. Very Good. Five volumes, 12mo., original red cloth, decorated in black, gilt titling to spine. Handsome nineteenth-century edition of Cromwell's letters and speeches. glue from removed large bookplates visible in four out of five volumes

London: Chapman and Hall, 1904. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good +. 8vo., contemporary calf, spine gilt with a morocco title piece, Rugby School arms stamped in gilt on upper cover, marbled edges, frontispiece portrait of Wm. Shakespeare, and two plates being portraits of Rousseau and Napoleon. First published in 1841. joints rubbed, some light wear to the covers in places, Rugby School award bookplate on front pastedown partially removed

Paris: Librairie Européenne de Baudry, 1884. First edition. Very Good +. 8vo., original green cloth. Interesting work written, in English, for French students of English verse. Scarce a few contemporary ink notes on the front free endpaper, cloth a little rubbed at extremities

New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1905. First American edition. Hardcover. Fair. Sm. 4to., original green cloth, 49 plates. Introduction by Colonel Younghusband. bookblock separated from cover, missing front free endpaper, but internally very good

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1963. Third printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo., original yellow cloth, illustrated endpapers, frontispiece and 26 plates, as well as six illustrations in the text. A generous selection of humorous stories from China, Korea, and particularly Japan. very occasional erudite manuscript annotations in French