Search Results: Authors starting with M from Black Paw Books

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. 8v0 (9 1/4" tall). 252 pp. Brown cloth binding. From private collection. Previous owners' bookplates on front pastedown and ffep; name printed (1863) on half-title page.

Longmans, Green, & Company, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Book presents the amusing annotations and notes made by Lord Macaulay in the margins of books and manuscripts in his extensive library. 8vo (9" tall). 64 pp. Green cloth. Top corners gently bumped. Name printed on ffep.

Methuen: Methuen, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. Collection of essays by Lord Macaulay, originally published in the Edinburgh Review between 1825 and 1831. The essays cover a range of topics such as Milton, Machiavelli, Southey, Johnson, and other historical figures/. Complete in three volumes. 8vo. Blue cloth with decorative gilt stamping to spines. From private collection. Covers show some minor soiling and rubbing. Bottom corner of second volume's boards gently bumped. Pages show some foxing, mostly limited to prelims and edges of book block (pls. see images).

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. These volumes cover the story of English Radicalism from its origins right through the early 19th century. By Combining new sources with the old and often long forgotten, the volumes provide an impressive history of radicalism and shed light on the course of English political development." Two volumes. 8vo. Bound in green cloth. From private collection. Cloth shows faint spotting and is faded along spines.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Octavo (22 x 14 cm), unpaginated. Black cloth. English language introduction + facsimile reprint of 1506 edition. From private collection. No ownership ink or markings. Glassine dustwrapper shows wear along spine ends and corners.

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. This book examines the role played by public schools in shaping British attitudes during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Scarce. xvi, 432 pp. Blue cloth. From private collection. Penciled marginalia erased from a few pages; a couple of dog-eared pages returned to flat position. Bottom corner of upper board bumped.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1853. From the Second London Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Early American edition of biography of the famous Scottish philosopher, lawyer, and politician, Sir James Mackintosh. Book covers Mackintosh's early years in Scotland, his education at the University of Edinburgh, and his roles as a lawyer, politician, and social reformer in late 18th and early 19th century Britain. Complete in two volumes. Tall octavo (23.5 cm tall). In brown cloth. From private collection. Binding is a little faded along spine. Cloth starting to fray along crown of spine of first volume. Names of previous owners printed on endpapers.

Chanakya Publications, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Select articles by Shore critical of British rule, first published in the India Gazette in the early 1800s. Shore's writings were controversial in their time and largely ignored by his contemporaries. Octavo, 304 pp. Black cloth. Indian imprint. From private collection. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. In clean dust jacket.

London: William Heinemann, Ltd, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First UK Edition. Octavo, 373 pp. Blue cloth. Previous owner's name printed on ffep. Top edge of book block lightly dust-stained. Ever so slight spine slant. Dust jacket shows rubbing to edges.

Cambridge University Press, 1898. Hardcover. Good+. Series of lectures by noted English jurist and historian Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906). 8vo. ix, 220 pp. Black cloth. Binding shows rubbing. Slight spine slant. Prev. owner's names and article on W.M. Palmer affixed to endpaper.

Self Published, 1981. Softcover. Very Good. Scarce French-language magazine. One of a limited edition of 350 copies. Quarto, 38 pages. Stapled wraps. From private collection. Corners show light bend.

London: William H. Allen and Co, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good. This work serves as a continuation of Sir John Kaye's History of the Sepoy War and provides a contemporary account of the factors that contributed to the Indian Rebellion of 1857; the strategies and tactics employed by both the British and Indian forces; and the eventual suppression of the rebellion. Two-volume set. Octavo (9" tall). Volume I: xxxi, 575 pp. Volume II: xxxvi, 595 pp. + errata and publisher's adverts. Maroon cloth. Cloth shows some deterioration and is discolored along spine. Foxing to edges of text blocks.

Washington, DC: The Vice President's House, 1993. Softcover. Very Good+. Square octavo. 12 pp. Color illustrations. Stapled wraps. Minor shelf wear to wraps.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1899. Good+. Uncommon biography of John Manners, the Marquis of Granby, who was a prominent figure in the British military, politics and English social life in the 18th century. (The Marquis was Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the Seven Years' War.). Tall octavo (23 cm tall), 463 pp. Blue cloth with horizontal red band and armorial gilt-stamp on front board. From private collection. Cloth show some soiling and damp stain. Small nick to front board. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing to title page and tissue guard protecting frontispiece.

J.M. Dent/E.P. Dutton, n.d.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Manning's novel provides a glimpse into the domestic life of Sir Thomas More, his family, and the historical context of 16th century England. 12mo.209 pp. Red cloth. From private collection. Minor soiling to top corner of a few pages. Edges of dust jacket show some rubbing.

Manohar, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Quarto, pp. xii + 261. In maroon cloth binding. Previous owner's name on ffep. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. Corners gently bumped. Dust jacket is a little edgeworn with several tears along top edge. Scarce full-length study of Mysore from 1917 when it first began to seek autonomy, to 1955 when the Congress party established itself as the state's central political force.

Centaur Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Memoirs of noted English author and a Church of England theologian. Pattison's Memoirs offer a first-hand account of intellectual life in mid-Victorian England. Octavo, 334 pp. Dark blue cloth. From the private collection of Boston historian Frederick A. Hagar. Foxing to edges of book block. Bookplate on front pastedown. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. In clean dust jacket.

Parma: Tip. la nazionale, n.d.. Softcover. Very Good. Italian language work appears to focus on King Enzo of Sardinia and his unsuccessful siege of Parma. Booklet includes an appendix: Le Canzoni di re Enzio by Giovanni Pascoli. Scarce. Italian language work. 12mo (20 cm tall). [16] pp. With black & white photos and illustrations throughout. Stapled wraps. Fron private collection.

Boston: House of Edinboro, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Short work covers America's foreign policy from Wilson's plans for the League of Nations through the creation of the United Nations. 12mo, 52 pp. Red cloth. From private collection. Pages remain clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is soiled and shows some edgewear.

Zondervan, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The Nestle Greek text with a literal English translation." 9th printing. Thick octavo, 1027 pp. Blue cloth. Previous owner's name and note asking that the book be returned to said owner on front free endpaper. Text remains clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows some rubbing and a little edgewear.