TALES by Crabbe, Rev. George, LL.B - 1812

J. Hatchard, 1812. Hardcover. Good. . Leather spine, corners. Marbled boards heavily scuffed. Spine looks nice on a shelf. General shelf/age wear. Minor foxing throughout, overall clean. Binding sturdy.

London: J Hatchard,, 1812 London: J Hatchard, 1812. Second edition. HB.Vol II, 235pp, from the private library of Thomas Braun the well respected Oxford Don, Academic, Linguist and Classicist with his Signature and date to fep, split down front spine edge, boards corners lightly bumped, ex libris label "Henry Wood" to fep but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

London: J Hatchard, 1812 London: J Hatchard, 1812. Second edition. HB.Vol I, 205pp, with dedication to the Duches of Rutland and authors' preface, from the private library of Thomas Braun the well respected Oxford Don, Academic, Linguist and Classicist with his Signature and date to fep, some wear to boards edges, ex libris label "Henry Wood" to fep and foxing to extremeties only otherwise in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hardcover. Fair. [FIRST EDITION] London: John Murray, 1819. Half contemporary brown calf, marbled boards. Two volumes bound as one. 8vo. xxiv, 326 + viii, 353, [1] pages. The first printing of Crabbe's last book published during his lifetime. Leather is worn and cracked with front board loose, minor pencil ticking to a few margins, else very good overall condition; NOT EX-LIBRARY. (froc)

London: John Murray, 1820 3 volume set Attractive set. Blind stamped gilt design to full leather boards with 5 raised bands to ornately gilt decorated spine. wear to top of spine with some loss. marbles ffeps. no inscriptions. some spotting to ffps and light browning.

London:: John Murray,, 1819.. First edition.. publisher's half red morocco over pebbled cloth.. 19thc bookplate on each pastedown; a few spots of very inoffensive foxing at beginning and end; binding rubbed and worn at extremties; both volumes tight and sound.. 8vo,. Half-titles present.

London: for Hatchard 1812 Quarter leather, marbled boards, gilt banding and lettering to spine. Rubbed and aged, loss to spine ends, gilt rubbed. Bookplate of Francis White Popham to front pastedown. Still a Good, tight copy.

London: J. Hatchard, 1812 Second edition. HB. Two volumes. Full leather, gilt spine titles and decorations in compartments, gilt decorative borders. Marbled endpapers and edges. H: 16.5cm. Vol. I: 205pp, with dedication to the Duches of Rutland and authors' preface. Vol.II: 235pp + errata page. Poems. Good condition overall. Pages are very good, clean, just the odd spot or small mark, and binding sound. The covers are, however, worn: the main boards are bright and clean, with rubbed edges, but half of the spine leather is detaching in Vol.II, and has the lower 2cm missing in vol.I.

London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Leather. Good Only. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A first edition of this collection of Crabbe's poetry, dating from the early nineteenth century. First Edition. Complete in two volumes. With the armorial bookplates of John Blenkinsopp Coulson to the front pastedowns. George Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet and clergyman. Lord Byron, an avowed admirer of Crabbe's poetry, called him 'nature's sternest painter, yet the best'. Crabbe's poetry was predominantly in the form of heroic couplets, and has been described as unsentimental in its depiction of provincial life and society. Modern critic Frank Whitehead has said that 'Crabbe, in his verse tales in particular, is an important, indeed, a major, poet whose work has been and still is seriously undervalued'. His works include The Village (1783), Poems (1807), The Borough (1810), and his poetry collections Tales (1812) and Tales of the Hall (1819). Crabbe also had a lifelong… Read More

London: John Murray, 1819. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxiv, 326; [iii]-viii, 353, [1]; mild occasional foxing, light dampstain in gutter of title of vol. I, else generally a very good set in recent chocolate brown paper-covered boards, paper labels on spines.