The Book-Hunter, Etc. (1862) by John Hill Burton - 2009-06-01

New York: Worthington Co.. Collectible - Acceptable. Reading Copy. Backstirp lacking. Boards soiled. Light foxing to the page edges. Front hinge starting to crack. Inquire if you need further information.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885 Ex-Library. Fair. Hardcover. New Edition. Late 19th century on being a book-hunter, bibliophile, book lover! Boards are both detached, spine covering is absent, flyleaf is fragile and mostly separated from the binding; text itself is in very good condition. 427 pages.

New York: Sheldon and Company, 1863. First. Fair. John Hill Burton FRSE (1809 - 1881) was a Scottish advocate, historian and economist. The author of Life and Correspondence of David Hume, he was secretary of the Scottish Prison Board (1854-77), and Historiographer Royal (1867-1881) This copy is fair only in brownish purple cloth with a paper title label on the spine.  Covers are worn, with minor loss at the spine ends.  Ex-library with call number on lower spine and minor stamps and numbering on first few pages.  Paper title label is mostly worn away, so that it's now illegible.  Hinges and text block are cracked, but although the binding is loose it is still holding everything together.  Some age darkening of the text, but no other marks..

New York: Worthington Co., 1887. Boards are lightly scuffed and rubbed, black library tape over spinecover. Front inside hinge weak. Text pages are clean with no markings. . Half-Leather. Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

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Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1862. PHOTOS UPON REQUEST. The binding is in Fair condition only, as the leather covering the spine is missing. Hinges are weak. Contents is Very Good but for ink notes on two preliminary pages. [The notes discuss the 1864 auction of the library of author/book collector George Daniel (1789-1864) including first folio editions of Shakespeare's works. The sale realised £15,865. See DNB for more.] All other pages are clean and unmarked. NO foxing. A reading or rebacking/binding copy only of the uncommon 1862 first edition. Quarter-bound in brown calf over maroon cloth. Leather covering the spine is lacking. Original flat brown endpapers. Binder's ticket on the rear pastedown shows the book was bound by Burn, 37 & 38 Kirbys. The text pages are securely bound together, so rebacking or a entirely new binding could be added without the effort or expense of having to re-sew. From the front matter: "This book owes its… Read More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885. x., 426 pages, b/w frontis.. Some bumping wear to covers, home made replacement spine cloth, previous owner's names and inscriptions to front endpaper and title page. [795]. New Edition. Boards, 1/4 Cloth. Very Good. 200mm. x 140mm.. Book.

Frederick A. Stokes, Co., n.d.s. (1895). hbk 396pp brown cloth with gilt spine titles prev owner's bookplate on front endpaper illus engraved frontispiece slight rubbing and minor fraying at bottom of spine rear hinge cracked and at p 16 otherwise pages lightly toned otherwise internally a very good clean tight copy now in acetate jacket

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1882. x, iii, civ (A Memoir of the Author), 427, frontispiece etching of the author, 3 tailpieces and a duo-tone lithograph of "A nook in the author's library". Half black morocco, black cloth, gilt titles and date to compartmented spine, top edge only cut. Copy from the Athenaeum Library Liverpool with their bookplate on the ffep, name and accession no on the spine and with several unobtrusove stamps on plates etc. Leather dry at hinges. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". A New Edition with a Memoir of the Autho. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.