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

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1853.] First edition. 8vo, pp. 392 + 12 plates, including frontispiece and additional vignette title-page, as called for, a few illustrations in the text. Plates somewhat browned, a few leaves lightly foxed, a good copy. Blue cloth, gilt, spine gilt, upper board and edges a little faded, but still good. Not in Bib. Valdese.

Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. First edition. 8vo., pp. xlv, 275. Map of Gaul to text. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2017. First edition. Large 8vo., pp. 182 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011. 8vo., pp. 226. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. First edition. 8vo., pp. viii, 478. Hardback: beige cloth, boards slightly bowed. Dust-jacket, light shelf wear. Otherwise a very good copy. Co-ordinated by Bernadino Fantini and translated by Antony Shugaar.

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. First edition. 8vo., pp. xvii, 396. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Spine slightly cocked, mild signs of use with jacket lightly creased to edges, still a good copy. In the publisher's Author Chronologies series.

Lewes, East Sussex: Linda Lamont, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. [x], 1-100, xxviii (photo section, in colour) 101-176. Paperback, minor shelf-wear, very good. With contributions by many colleagues and friends of William Lamont.

Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Frontline Books, 2015. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 214. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2017. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxi, 249 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, red gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused: as new.

Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. 320 + colour plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxviii, 464. Hardback: burgundy cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, book and contents pristine, as new, although edges a touch and cream jacket rather more dust-smudged in places: on balance still a very good copy.

London: Printed for B. White, T. Becket, P.A. De Hondt and W. Nicoll, 1767. Second, enlarged edition. 4 vols., 12mo. pp. [2], (xxxvi), 248; [6], (iv), 336; (iv), 248; [6], (iv), 295, [1], lacking first blanks as usual. With engraved titlepage vignettes. Minimal yellowing, the odd marginal spot, very light stain to lower outer corner of first gathering in vols 2 and 4. Full sheep, raised bands, spine gilt, gilt-lettered morocco label. Minor loss at head and foot of spines, joints a bit cracked but firm, corners a bit rubbed, couple of ancient stains. Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to front pastedown of vol. 1. Fresh, clean set of this fascinating English translation of Horace. John Duncombe (1729-86), a clergyman, classicist and writer, published his translation in 2 vols in 1757. Like the first, this edition includes Horace's works in English, followed by brief notes with commentary, e.g., Duncombe's reflections on Dryden's translations. In addition, the second edition features… Read More

London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1965. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 81 + plates. Maps and illustrations. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Lightly shelf-worn and dusted with a little fraying to jacket edges, otherwise very good.

London: printed for J. Walker, J. Wallis, and J. Binns, Leeds, 1789. 2nd edition. 12mo, pp. x, [ii, blank], 321, [3]. Some gatherings printed on blue paper. Contemporary sheep, spine divided by gilt rules, red morocco label. Somewhat browned and spotted throughout. Extremities a bit rubbed, corners just a touch worn, tidy repairs to joints and spine ends. Early ownership inscription of Alex. Brown to flyleaf. The posthumous, scarcer second edition of this highly-respected translation, first published 1760. Although Fawkes (bap. 1720-1777) had been widely read in his lifetime and formed a friendship with Samuel Johnson, he left little at his death for his widow to live upon, leading to publication of his unfinished works and and then this reprinting. ESTC T85627.

London: John Murray, 1971. 4to. (280 x 230 mm), pp. 232 + plates in colour and b/w. Colour frontispiece. Hardback: green cloth, gilt to spine and upper board, very good. Lacks dust-jacket. Originally published in German in 1957.

London: Allen Lane, 2010. First edition. 8vo., pp. xliv, 988 + plates. Maps, some double-page, and illustrations. Hardback: red cloth, black-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. A little dust-marked to edges, a hint only of shelf-wear to jacket: a very good copy.

Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 8vo., pp. 266. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 445 in the ACMRS Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series.