The Thornton Romances. The Early English Metrical Romances of Perceval, Isumbras, Eglamour, and Degrevant. Selected from MSS at Lincoln and Cambridge. The Camden Society 1844 by Edited by James Orchard Halliwell - 1844

London: The Camden Society / John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1839. Hardcover. Very Good. 1839. A Very Good book. 8vo., 79 pp., bound in publishers decorated green cloth. Spine is darkened; tips, edges and spine rubbed. Two indentations to the covers edge. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover; signature on end page. End pages are rubbed. Text is unmarked, binding tight.

The Camden Society, printed by John Bowyer Nichols and Son, London, 1840. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean dark green covers with blind decoration on the front and rear covers and gilt lettering and decoration on the spine, sound binding, clean pages First printing in this revision. xiii, 138, index. No dust jacket, as published. Stamps for Halifax Antiquarian Society and "Withdrawn" stamp on front end-papers and prelims. Pages of main text are free from stamps. . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 42419021053. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service..

Cambridge University Press, 2013. Paperback. New. 350 pages. 8.98x5.98x0.87 inches.

London: John Russell Smith, 1842. Hardcover. Good. First edition published from a manuscript of the fifteenth century, preserved in The Chetham Library at Manchester. Dark cloth with paper label on spine. Good only with owner's bookplate on front pastedown, stamp on front fly verso, pages foxed, corners bumped, paper label chipped, spine head torn.

London: Printed for the Society, by R. and J.E. Taylor, 1841. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Dark blue publisher's cloth, decorative pattern in blind with gilt centerpiece. Small ownership signature, wear to the front joint, else very good or better. Subscriber's copy, Signed and dated by William Henry Black on the front free endpaper. Includes letters by Tycho Brache, Thomas Lydyat, Charles Cavendish, John Pell, and others. Also includes the by-laws of the *Historical Society of Science*, founded by James Halliwell, an antiquary and unrepentant son-in-law of the bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps. With the formation of the *Society* and publication of this work, Halliwell advanced the history of science as an independent scholarly pursuit. William Henry Black was a prolific contributor to many journals, and a member of the *British Archaeological Association*. A handsome copy, scarce in the original boards.

London: Printed for the Camden Society, 1842. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. The very uncommon 1842 1st edition of this original publication of "two curious documents concerning Dr. John Dee", the great 16th century occut philosopher (1527-1609) who devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy. 1) "His Private Diary, written in a very small illegible hand on the margins of old Almamacs, discovered a few years ago by Mr. W.H. Black, in the library of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford". 2) "A Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts, made by himself before his house was plundered by the populace, and now preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge". This 1842 volume, a slim octavo in its original chocolate-brown boards, has held up very nicely. Solid and VG+, with decorative blindstamping to the panels and still-bright gilt-titling and flourishes along the spine. Just a touch of light bubbling to the rear panel, small, neat former owner name and 1940 date… Read More