Search Results: Titles starting with E from Unsworth's Antiquarian Booksellers

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1960. 8vo, pp. [xi], 501. A very good copy. Red cloth, dust-jacket, minimally faded or spotted, but still very good. Second edition. First published in 1958.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 8vo., pp. 310. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 428 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

Leeds: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1987. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxxiii, 148. Cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated, edges lightly dusted. Dust-jacket. Almost fine. The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Volume CXLV for the Year 1985.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. First edition. Blue cloth, red title to spine, some rubbing to corners and endcaps, edges dusted, very good. Dust-jacket, four small closed tears to both covers by spine, a little sticker residue to back cover, shelf wear, still very good. A History of Central Europe, vol. III.

Lewiston, NY / Queenston, Ontario / Lampeter, Wales: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 188. Pencil annotations and lining, not affecting legibility. Hardback: black cloth, small bump to bottom edge of upper board, shelf wear, still a very good copy. No dust-jacket. Ex Libris bookplate of Brenda M. Cook to front paste-down. Volume VIII in the series Mediaeval Studies.

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. 8vo., pp. 204. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 365 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.

Oxford University Press, 1996. First edition. 8vo., pp. xvi, 638 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, edges dusty otherwise very good. Dust-jacket, a little shelf-worn with creasing to edges and a small patch of discolouration to rear but still good.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First edition. 8vo, pp. 528. Maps as endpapers. Hardback: quarter green cloth with cream buckram boards, gilt-lettered to spine, a slight bow to upper board and a hint of dust to edges, still very good. Dust-jacket, rather shelf-worn and a little grubby, with creasing to top edge and tears to corners and head of spine, good only.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 335 + plates. Maps. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Brixiae [Brescia]: apud Bartholomæum Fontanam, 1628. 4to., pp. [viii], 517, [I]. Printer's device to title-page, woodcut initials, decorative headpieces, wide margins. A little toned around the text, pp.41-46 a little crumpled at top corner, dampstaining to lower fore edge corner approx pp.95-100 making the paper fragile and causing some small holes (not affecting text), tiny worm trail at edge of gutter pp.287-302, approx 1cm wax spot to p.294 affecting but not obscuring text. Contemporary limp vellum, title extravagantly inked to spine in an old hand. Spine darkened, some spotting, thongs snapped at upper joint causing the binding to loosen with binders waste that has been used as a spine lining also coming away, rear joint firm, ffep a bit ragged at edges, pastedowns lifting, still good overall. MS notes to endpaper verso opposite title-page, dated 1648. A few scraps of paper with illegible MS in an old hand loosely inserted. Seemingly rare in libraries in the British Isles, with… Read More

Glasguae [Glasgow]: Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1751. Miniature 32mo. (80 x 45mm approx.). pp. 95, [i]. Text in Greek. Very occasional light spots, tiny hole to F2 affecting signature but not text. Contemporary dark brown calf, spine with raised bands and gilt bird motif to each compartment, neatly rebacked and label replaced, ffep renewed but other endpapers original. A bit rubbed, some light scrapes and scratched but a very good, attractive copy. Engraved bookplate of The Minister's Library, Stand Parsonage covering most of front paste-down. This is likely Stand Parsonage, Whitefield, Manchester. 'An early edition of Foulis' famous little volume' (Speilmann), printed in the same 8-point Greek type as their Anacreon of 1754. Issued again by Foulis in 1765, but with a different setting. ESTC T138728; Bondy p.24; Gaskell 190; Spielmann 9

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2020. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiv, 273 + plates with maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967. 4to, pp. [vi], 421. Slight toning, but still very good. Blue cloth, spine gilt, minimally faded, dust-jacket, a little browned, but still very good. Fourth reprint. First published 1955.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908 Second edition. 8vo. pp. ix, [1], 230, [10], last four leaves of bookseller's advertisements, with lithographed colour frontispiece, 74 lithographed colour plates by A. Heaton Cooper. Intermittent slight mainly marginal foxing. Original publisher's blue cloth, gilt and tooled in black, red and white with naturalistic decorations, spine slightly sunned, head a little rubbed. The second edition of this beautifully illustrated travelogue focused on major English lakes, with 74 colour plates by A. Heaton Cooper, a famous watercolourist renowned for his landscape views.

London: Allen Lane, 1993. First edition. 8vo., pp. xiii, 466. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, small dent to top board edge, two corners slightly bumped. Dust-jacket, sun-faded to spine, shelf-worn and creased with fraying to edges, otherwise complete. Still a good reading copy.

London: printed for R. And J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, 1755. 1755. 12mo., pp. [xii], 139 (i.e. 239), [xxv]. Parallel Latin and English texts. Two final leaves of advertisements. A little toned, very good. Contemporary brown calf, gilt spine with label, gilt borders to boards edges sprinkled red. Bookplate to front pastedown, initials S and B twined together by a rope ampersand, beneath the coronet of an earl. William Hay (1695–1755) was a writer and Whig politician, sitting in the Commons from 1734 to 1755. The 'Advertisement' preceding the text notes that his edition was also available in an English-only 8vo. volume, 'that they may not be encumbered with the Latin, who do not understand it.' ESTC T94257

Amsterdami [Amsterdam]: Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1670. 12mo., pp.456. Illustrated title page, engraved initials and end-pieces. Internally very clean. Contemporary vellum school prize binding, title inked to spine, plain gilt borders, gilt centrepiece with arms of Amersfoot. Vellum a little greyed with some small spots and stains, ties lost, slight separation at gutter between ffep and title-page but sewing all intact, very good. Thomas Farnaby (1574/5–1647) was a celebrated schoolteacher and grammarian. 'The success of his establishment allowed Farnaby to devote himself to a long-held obsession: the systemization of the grammatical principles of classical Latin and Greek in print. Commencing with the satires of Juvenal and Persius (1612), he annotated many of the classical authors—Seneca, Martial, Lucan, Ovid, Virgil, and Terence—in a manner intended to render their works intelligible to schoolboys [...] He also corresponded with the Dutch intellectuals Gerardus… Read More

Amstelaedami [Amsterdam]: Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios. 1738. Editio princeps. Large folio, pp. [20], 865, [1], lacking final blank. With half-title, title page in red and black, engraved printer's device to title, double column in Greek and Latin. Half-title, title and a handful of other leaves slightly foxed, occasional toning. Contemporary Dutch vellum, traces of ties, gilt ruled to a panel design, gilt centrepieces with arms of Amsterdam, small gilt arms of Amsterdam to corners, raised bands, small gilt arms of Amsterdam to spine, title inked to spine, modern shelfmark label to upper cover. Corners a bit bumped. Modern stamp of Maastricht library to ffep. A sumptuously bound, large folio prize book - a clean and well-margined copy. The first collected printing of the letters of Libanius, the 4th-century AD rhetorician. More than 1500 of his letters survive, the largest extant collection from antiquity, and only brief selections had been previously edited. Wolf's magisterial… Read More

London: Printed for W. Thurlbourne [...] and sold by R. Dodsley [...] J. Beecroft [...] and M. Cooper, 1753. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [vi], xvi, 280, [2]; xv, [i], 231, [25]. Engraved headpiece at start of text in each vol. (one by C. Grignion after Hayman). Contemporary sprinkled calf, spines divided by raised bands between double gilt rules, red morocco labels, other compartments with central gilt tools. Marginal dampmark at rear of vol. 2, some minor marking elsewhere. Spines somewhat rubbed, a few scratches, small chip to head of vol. 2 spine and head of the rear board touched by damp. One of 750 copies of the second edition (first 1749, with a partial reprint in 1751). Richard Hurd (1720-1808) was a young priest moving in literary circles at the time of his classical work, and later rose to be bishop of Worcester. 'How many editions, translations, and imitations of Horace could the London public be expected to buy in any year? Hurd was the exception to such gloomy predictions, for his editions… Read More

Londini [London]: Sumtibus Rodwell et Martin [et al.], 1821. 12mo, pp. [iv], 374, [2, ads]. Contemporary smooth vellum boards, spine lettered in ink. A little spotting, endpapers foxed. Binding lightly dustsoiled. From the 'Regents Classics' series of Latin authors in pocket format, a project inspired by the Elzevirs.