Tales Of The Great And Brave by Margaret Fraser, Tytler - 1895

W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1895. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1895. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Presentation plate to front paste-down. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding is shaky. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends.

W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1895. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1895. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative green cloth with gilt lettering. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier tanning and foxing to front and rear. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is weakened. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Book has a slight forward lean. Mild crushing to spine ends.

Philadelphia: William G. Wardle, 1848. Hardcover. Good. 192 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece and 6 leaves of plates: in-text illustrations; 14 cm. Publisher's grey linen with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Error in pagination: p. 165 misnumbered 167. Engraved armorial? bookplate on front fixed endpaper featuring a seated woman with a strange crown, holding an caduceus with a sailing ship in the background. Below the image the bookplate includes "No." on the left and "Yards" on the right. This is filled in by hand to read: "No. 5 -- 16 Yards." Contents: The Life of Washington --The Life of La Fayette -- The Life of Jackson -- The Life of Wellington. Very scarce. In Good Condition: boards are lightly stained; back board warped at upped edge; lacking upper corner of front free endpaper; small dampstain along upper page edges for first few leaves; larger dampstain in upper part of pages for last quarter of book; light foxing throughout; otherwise, clean… Read More

Nabu Press, 2010-02-16. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Philadelphia, PA: Wm. G. Wardle, 1845. Imprint. Hardcover. Very Good+. Imprint? Hardcover. Classic history text. This copy has inscription: "Frances Adams Kent from Mother, August 1913. Also includes W.C. Taber & Son bookseller ticket. Bound in blind stamped decorative border cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Tight, bright, and unmarred with some edge wear and minimal foxing throughout. 232 pages, in text illustrations throughout including frontispiece with tissue guard and six unnumbered leaves of plates.

New.