Search Results: Literature: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century from Arroyo Seco Books

Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1949. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good + Jacket. X, 255 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Near Fine, Touch Of Rubbing At Corners. Dj Complete, Not Price Clipped, Spine Slightly Darkened With 1/4" V-Chip At Bottom Edge.

New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1938. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Vi, 846 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Signed By Both Editors, And With A Letter From Haycraft On H. W. Wilson Letterhead Presenting The Book To Meserve, Who Did Some Of The Photographic Portraits. Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant.

London: John W. Parker And Son, 1857. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xx, 536 Pp. Three Quarter Tan Calf, Spine Ornately Gilt, Two Red Morocco Spine Labels; Marbled Paper Boards And Matching Endpapers, With Matching Marbling Also To Edges Of Page Block. Some Wear, Points Of Fraying At Tips Only, Hinges Tight, Contents Clean. Ownership Signature Of W. H. Latouche, 19Th Century Headmaster Of Hastings Grammar School, Sussex.

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, And Fields, 1851. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 288 Pp + 4 Pp Publisher's Catalog (July 1852) Tipped In At Front. 1851 Date On Title Page (First Published Thus In 1850). Brown Ribbed Cloth, Gilt. Well Preserved, Cloth Nearly Fresh, Gilt Brilliant, Light Fraying At Corners, Hinges Tight. Pencil Ownership Signature Hamilton Gay Howard, Proabbly Circa 1850'S, And 20Th Century Ink Ownership Signature. Light Dampstainingin Upper Left Quarter Of Front Cover.

London: R. And J. Dodsley, 1759. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Second And Best Edition. Vii, 247, (Iii), With One Front Blank And Three Rear Blanks; (Ii), 250, (Vi), With Three Preliminary And Final Blanks; Full Vellum, Five Bands, Spines With Green Morocco "Noble Authors" Labels And Black "Strawberry Hill" Labels; Spines Gilt In All Compartments And At Ends, Gilt Borders On Covers, Gilt Edges, Marbled Endpapers And Matching Edges Of Page Blocks. Vellum Lightly Discolored, As Usual, Labels And Their Gilt Still Very Bright, Bindings Solid. Bookplates Of Viscount Thomas Walpole, Cousin To Horace Walpole. Bookseller's Catalog Entry Describing This Exact Set Tipped On To Second Preliminary Blank Of Volume I.

New York: Houghton Mifflin And Company, 1905. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Slipcase. 11 1/4" Tall. 32 Pp. 8 1/8" Tall, Maroon Cloth Over Purplish-Brown Boards, Deckled Edges, Paper Spine Label, Brown Slipcase With Larger Paper Spine Label, Design By Bruce Rogers, And An Extra Large Paper Label Tipped In At Rear Of Book. Title Page Printed In Red And Black. This Example Also With The Rare Prospectus For The Book, Single Large Sheet Folded Into Four Pages, Reproducing The Title Page Of The Book, And Two Pages Of Description And Introduction, With Publisher's Price Of $3.00 Mentioned At End. #176 Of 375 Copies Of A Deluxe Limited Edition, Using The Text Of The Revised 1657 Edition Of Holland's 1603 Original. A Beautifully Made Book. The Book Is Near Fine, Points Of Rubbing At Tips Only, No Stains, No Marks, But Has A Personal Bookplate, Illustrated With A Parrot,On The Front Pastedown; Slipcase With Just A Touch Of Wear But Top Panel Lacking And 1/3 Of Bottom Panel Has… Read More

Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Iv, 290 Pp. + 1 Pp Catalog At End. Lightly Used, Slight Fading To Spine, No Marks. Texts In French, Explanatory Material In English.

London / Philadelphia: William And Robert Chambers / Lippincott Grambo & Co. (1844, 1853), 1844. First Hardcover Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Illustrations Throughout. Xvi, 672; Xiv, 717 Pp.Original Cloth, Identically Stamped In Gilt And In Blind On Spine (Including "New Edition"), Covers With Elaborate Blind Stamping With "Lippincott Grambo & Co. / Philad." In Medallion At Center Of Each Board. Volume I, To 1727, Dated 1844; Volume Ii, From 1727, Dated 1853 (For Which We Cannot Offer An Explanation Other Than That The Sheets Were Sent At Random From The Publisher In 1853, Using Old Stock On Hand). Gilt Brilliant But Cloth Quite Worn And Frayed, Volume Ii Frayed Through Along Rear Spine Edge With Rear Board Detached And Spine Cloth Held Only At Front Spine Edge; Lacking One Free Blank Endpaper At Rear Of Volume I; Lacking Front Free Endpapers And Half Title, Also Rear Free Endpapers, To Volume Ii. I Can Find No Mention In Worldcat Of Any Lippincott & Granbo Edition… Read More

London: George Bell & Sons 1878, 1879, 1878. Hardcover. Very Good. Engraved Plates. Four Volumes, First Three Dated 1878 On Title Page, Fourth Dated 1879, 7 1/8" Tall. Xxxviii, 434; Iv, 398 With Folding Table At End; Xii, 399; Viii, 469 Pp. Many Plates, Well Made And Well Reproduced, Frontispieces With Tissue Guards. Four Volumes, Half Polished Tan Calf, Spines Gilt, 5 Bands, With Red Title Labels, Dark Green Volume Number Labels, Calf Tips, Over Marbled Paper Covered Boards, Matching Endpapers All Edges Marbled In Matching Colors. Leather Intact Without Chipping Or Fraying But Some Surface Wear/Abrasion; Boards Worn With Loss Of Color And With Some Loss Of Paper Right Along Edges. Hinges Tight And Solid. No Names Or Marks. Anomalous Browning In Center 2/3 Of Two Lower Compartments Of Spines Of Each Volume; Perhaps Due To Paper Labels, But No Trace Of Such Nor Any Damage Other Than The Browning.

Paris: Garnier Hermanos, 1875. Reprint . Hardcover. Good. Plates. Xliv, 768 Pp + Catalog At Rear. Red Cloth Stamped In Gilt And In Blind, Original Green Endpapers. One Volume Edition. Wear, Gilt Bright But A Few Tiny Frays At Corners, Hinges Solid, Pages Very Slightly Toned. Bookplate Of Los Angeles Philanthropist Ernest M. Lever On Front Pastedown.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Xiv, 312 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Gilt And In Blind. First Printing. Near Fine, Slight Usage, Former Owner's Name And 1951 Date On Front Pastedown.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1954. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 696 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Issue, 1954 Date On Title Page, With List Of 12 Titles Before Title Page Showing Only Three Titles As "Published", Not Including This Title. In First Issue Dust Jacket, Light Yellow With Brown Printing, With List Of 12 Titles On Rear Flap Showing Only Four Titles As "Published" Including This One. Very Near Fine Book, No Marks, In Near Fine Dust Jacket With Slight Browning.

Boston and New York [1905]: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. Early Reprint . Blue Cloth / Gilt. Near Fine Books/No DJ's. 8 1/8" Tall. Frontispiece, Plates, Tables. Xx, 443; Xiv, 437; 485. Top Edges Gilt. Bound In Blue Ribbed Cloth, Gilt Lettering On Spine And Front Covers, Blindstamped Spine And Covers, Gilt Seals On Rear Covers. An Exceptionally Well Produced Variorum Edition, Here In The Three Volume 1915 Reprint, With Many Tissue-Guarded Plates, Etc. Christmas 1948 Inscription From A Mother To Her Son In Volume 1, No Other Names Or Marks Or Bookplates, Touches Of Rubbing At Corners, No Fading Or Staining.

London (In The Savoy): Henry Herringman, 1668. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece. Frontispiece With Two Finely Engraved Scenes "The Ephesian Matron" And "The Cimmerian Matron"; Title, With "Love & Wit."; 9 Pp A Letter Concerning The Ephesian Matron: To A Person Of Honour"; 80 Pp; Title Page The Cimmerian Matron, To Which Is Added, The Mysteries And Miracles Of Love, By P. M. Gent", 1668; 23Pp, "To The Author Of The Ephesian Matron"; 31, 32-77 Pp. [The Second Section Being "The Mysteries And Miracles Of Love"]; Catalog "Some Books Printed For Henry Herringman...", Including "Ben. Johnson's Second Volume", Probably Unsold Remaining Stock Of The Ben Jonson 1640 Folio, Herringman Having Acquired The Rights And Unsold Stock In 1667. This Copy Includes The Frontispiece With Short Title, Thus A First Title Page, And The Second Title Page Without Illustration, Other Copies Usually Lacking One Or The… Read More

Edinburgh: E. Grant Richards, 1906. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Xiii, 363 Pp. Top Edge Gilt. Vellum; Straps Mostly Chipped Away, Contents Clean, No Marks.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1896. First Edition Thus . Green Cloth, Gilt. Near Fine/No DJ. 144 pp. TEG, spine lettering gilt. Clean, unmarked, just a touch of wear, contents square and clean. Light glue foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's names on front and rear endpapers.

New York: Mcbride, Nast & Company, 1913. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus Book/No Jacket. Photographic Plates Of Actors. 214 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. Covers Clean And Evenly Colored, Hinges Tight, Spine Gilt Weak But Readable. Inscribed By The Authoron Front Free Endpaper To G. A. Davidson, Dated May 1919.

Los Angeles Ca: The Zamorano Club / Plantin Press, 1963. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Xxi, 45 Pp. Beige Cloth, Paper Spine Labelprinted In Red, Marbled Boards. First Edition, One Of 250 Copies. Warmly Inscribed From The Author, And With A Small Gift Note Card From Mrs. Homer Crotty. Near Fine. Vignettes And Facsimiles

New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. First American Edition . Red Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Dustjacket. 224 Pp. Red Cloth., First American Edition. Near Fine In Very Good Dust Jacket. Inscribed By Author. Waith Was Professor Emeritus Of English Literature At Yale University.

New York: Henry Holt, 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. X, 781 Pp. Errata Sheet Tipped In Before Preface. Grey Cloth Stamped In Green, Top Edge Gilt. Light Usage, No Fraying, All Lettering And Design Strong And Complete, Hinges Tight. Small Numbers In Upper Right Corner Of Title Page, No Other Marks. Corrections Page Tipped In At Front.