John Richard Green; Mrs. J.R. Green and Miss Kate Norgate [ed]

A Short History of the English People

London, Macmillan and Co, 1902-1903 . Cloth. A smart illustrated edition of J. R. Green's detailed history of the English people, beautifully illustrated in colour throughout. Originally published in 1874, without illustrations, historian John Richard Green began work in 1869, having been given a diagnosis of six months to live. Intended to be an account 'not of English Kings or English Conquests, but of the English People', Green was criticised at the time for the omission of major historical events such as battles.Illustrated with thirteen colour plates, included maps, to volume I. With nine plates to volume II, eight of which are in colour. Volume III illustrated with a folding colour frontispiece and five plates. Volume IV illustrated with three colour maps and one folding plate.Collated, complete, but with one plate detached and loosely inserted to volume IV, and lacking part of the folding plate to volume IV.With the armorial bookplate of Ernest A Taylor to each front pastedown, alongside the binder's label of G. Pulman & Sons.With an inscription to a front blank of each volume. In signed cloth bindings. Bumping to spine heads and tails. Damp staining to front board of volume I. Residue to head of volume IV front board. Front hinge of volume II strained. Bookplates and binders labels to front pastedowns. Inscriptions to a front endpaper of each volume. Internally, firmly bound. Light tide marks to page heads and tails throughout each volume. Damp staining resulting in discolouration to tail of pages 732-749 of volume II. Central leaves of volumes II and IV wrinkled throughout, due to damp. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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Book number: 868F29

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: A Short History Of the English People John Richard Green jr green english people John Richard Green Not Stated

William Greenfield

Essays on the Sources of the Pleasures Received from Literary Compositions

London, J. Johnson , 1809. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition collection of essays regarding the emotional responses to literature. A very scarce first edition. Rebound in half calf with gilt detail to the spine. Published anonymously although accredited to William Greenfield. A collection of published essays from Greenfield's lectures at the University of Edinburgh, regarding to the emotional responses to literature. With numerous sections including melancholy, improvement of taste, improvement of imagination and beauty. In half calf binding. Externally, smart with rubbing to the extremities. A few marks to the boards. Marks to the front paste-down where a bookplate has been torn off. Age-toning to the edges of the paste-downs and free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with some age-toning to the edges. Spotting throughout, heavier towards the front. A few marks towards the front pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 834G30

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: Literature phycology emotions william greenfield phycology None

T. E. Gregory

The Foreign Exchanges and the War: A Report to the Nottingham Chamber of Commerce

Nottingham, Henry B. Saxton, 1915. First edition. Cloth. - The first edition of this very scarce wartime economic analysis of 'Foreign Exchanges and the War' from British economist Sir Theodore Emmanuel Gregory.'Written for those many business men who have not the leisure to peruse larger works, and addressed to 'The Nottingham Chamber of Commerce', Gregory discusses war and exchange, and 'the New York, Parisian and Petrograd Exchanges', alongside charts of foreign rates in London and gold movements.With five folding plates of graphs and charts to the rear of the work.In a full cloth library binding, with the stamp of Nottingham Public Libraries throughout, including to title page and folding plate perimeters.At the time of the publication of this work, Gregory served as an Assistant and Lecturer at the London School of Economics. In a full cloth library binding. Externally, fine. Library stamp to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Library stamps throughout, including to title page and folding plate perimeters. Pages otherwise generally clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 827F4

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: Foreign exchange first world war theodore emanuel gregory finance first world war None

[Francis Gregory]

Onomastikon Brachy Sive, Nomenclatura Brevis Anglo-Latino-Graeca. In Usum Scholae Westmonasteriensis

London, J. Macock for Richard Royston, 1675. Leather. A very scarce Latin, English, and Greek dictionary, a concise work written for Westminster School. A very scarce work, this being the thirteenth edition.ESTC citation number R215985.Register runs as A-E8.Collated, compete.A detailed English, Greek, and Latin dictionary, printed in three parallel columns translating words into each of the three languages.This was a classified and much-used vocabulary, and was published expressly for the use of Westminster School, where the author was educated and eventually worked.By Francis Gregory, a divine and ardent Royalist during the Civil War. In a full calf binding. Externally, worn, with a chip to the head of the front board. Bumping to the extremities. Some rubbing and marks to the boards and spine. A few small puncture holes to the boards. Front hinge is weak, rear hinge is strained. Prior owner's ink to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age-toned with a few spots, handling marks, and ink marks. Prior owner's ink to the title page, and a few other pages of text. Leaf A4 is heavily worn, with some chips and most of the page detached, an aged repair. Leaves A5 to B6 are repaired by a prior owner. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .

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Book number: 852P51

Catalogue: Social Sciences

Keywords: Onomastikon Brachy Sive, Nomenclatura Brevis Anglo-Latino-Graeca Nomenclatura Brevis Anglo-Latino-Graeca language latin Nomenclatura Brevis Anglo-Latino-Graeca greek francis gregory None

Sir George Grey

The Library of His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C. B. Philology

London, Trubner & Co. 1858. Cloth. A photo-duplication of this detailed study of the development of language in South Africa. Reproduced by the Photo-Duplication Department of the University of Natal. Scarce work. Volume one, part one and part two. With one folding plate. A detailed study of the structure and historical development of language in South Africa, with reference to the relationship between separate languages. Written by Sir George Grey, a British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator, and writer who served as Governor of South Australia as well as Governor of New Zealand, and Governor of Cape Colony. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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Book number: 859T91

Catalogue: Social Sciences

Keywords: Library Excellency George Grey Philology Excellency None

Hilda E. P. Grieve

Examples of English Handwriting 1150-1750

Essex, Essex Education Committee, Essex Record Office Publications, 1954. Cloth. The publisher's presentation copy of this fascinating study of the development of English handwriting, presented to Richard William Hunt, who assisted in this work. The publisher's presentation copy, letter tipped in to the recto to the front endpaper, signed from F. G. Emmison, who was a County Archivist for Essex. Dated 22nd April 1954, 'Dear Dr. Hunt, I am sending with compliments of the Education Committee a copy of Examples of English Handwriting, and I am instructed by the members to express their appreciation of your encouragement and support in its preparation. May I also add my personal thanks for your help. Perhaps you would like to have a few prospectuses for your students. Sincerely, Fred Emmison&apos.Bookplate of Richard William Hunt to the front pastedown. Hunt was the Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library for thirty years. Hunt is thanked by the author to the foreword.A fascinating study of the history and development of handwriting in England, across the period of 1150 to 1750. The documents used for this work were all from Essex parish records and other archives in Essex.Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-eight plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.By Hilda E. P. Grieve. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some light marks to the boards and spine. Spine is faded. Light bumping to the spine and extremities. Bookplate and prior owner's ink inscription to the front paste down. Publisher's letter tipped in to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

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Book number: 773P2

Catalogue: Economics & Social Sciences

Keywords: Examples of English Handwriting 1150-1750 essex r. w. hunt richard william hunt essex hilda e. p. grieve handwriting Various

George Griffith

The Free Schools and Endowments of Staffordshire and Their Fulfilment

London, Whittaker and Co. 1860. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this report on Staffordshire's free and endowed schools, published a decade before the Endowed Schools Act of 1869 which restructured grammar schools in England in Wales. With frontispiece, and folding plate. A first edition of this report on Staffordshire's endowed schools. With frontispiece, and folding plate. Published nearly a decade before the Endowed Schools Act of 1869, this work as probably a contribution to the Schools Enquiry Commission appointed to examine the 782 endowed grammar schools and report on the education provision. The act led to the restructuring of grammar schools in England in Wales. In a contemporary brown cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards, more so to the joints, with an centimetre long tear to both the front and rear joints at the head of the spine. Bumped to the head and tail of the spine, with a couple of closed tears to each, and a little loss of cloth to the tail. The front hinge has failed, but half of the text block is still connected to the spine. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are a little loose at around page 306. Pages are lightly age-toned, but clean throughout. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: 856N36

Catalogue: Social Sciences

Keywords: The Free Schools and Endowments of Staffordshire and Their Fulfilment George Griffith Stafford Endowed Schools George Griffith First Edition None

Stefano Guazzo

La CIVIL Conversatione

[Vinegia], [Altobello Salicato], c1586. Vellum. An early edition of Stefano Guazzo's important treatise on etiquette, an interesting work on the manners of European courts in the sixteenth century. An early edition of this important treatise discussing education, family, and social life. In the original Italian.Register runs as a2-a7, b8, c4, A-Qq8, Rr4. Paginated to the recto only. This work is an important source for the ideals of etiquette in sixteenth century Europe, touching on the standard for manners, proper behaviour, and the duties of courtiers. The text is formed of a dialogue at a banquet between two parties, Hannibal and Knight. Written by native of Casale Monferrato, Stefano Guazzo, first published in 1574. This was a popular work, translated in English, Latin, French, and Spanish, and was printed well into the seventeenth century.In 1561, the author founded l'Accademia degli Illustrati, a literary academy in his hometown, Casale. Bound without title page, and leaf a8. Based on pagination, this copy is one of Altobello Salicato's 1580s editions of this work, published in Vinegia. In a contemporary vellum binding. Externally, lacking the front board. Some loss and lifting to the backstrip. Vellum is age-toned and marked, as is usual to see. Spine is faded. A small amount of loss of vellum to the rear board. Front endpaper and rear endpaper have been reinforced. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with the occasional handling mark and spot. Lacking the title page. Light tide mark to the text, a little heavier to gatherings C, D, I, P, R, S, and Z. Chip to leaf 2O6, resulting in marginal loss to the text. Small patch of worming to the gutter from leaf M4 to Dd2. Fair . Ill.: None. Fair .

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Book number: 899P59

Catalogue: Social Sciences

Keywords: La Civil Conversatione italian stefano guazzo conversation italian knight None

GYP

Autour Du Divorce

Paris, Calmann Levy , 1886 . Leather. A copy of this French novel by Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau or GYP. A nineteenth edition copy. Written by GYP, which was the pseudonym for Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau who was a French writer. This is one of her many novel in French which were often humorous sketches that denounced the fashionable society of France as well as the French republic's political class. Bookplate to the front pastedown for Elizabeth Sherman Cameron. In quarter leather with marbled boards. Externally, smart with marks to the spine and boards and rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and joints. Bookplate to the front pastedown for Elizabeth Sherman Cameron. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 862B26

Catalogue: Social Sciences

Keywords: Autour du Divorce GYP divorce French GYP None

H. Rider Haggard

The Poor and the Land: Being a Report on the Salvation Army Colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England with Scheme of National Land Settlement

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1905. First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the illustrated first edition of this report of the Salvation Army colonies through the United States and England. First edition. Illustrated with twelve images across six plates. Collated complete. A detailed commentary on the social work performed by members of the Salvation Army across the US and in Hadleigh, England, with chapters on agricultural and industrial establishments, Imperial patriotism, immigration schemes, and more. With notes from many interviews with prominent members of the Salvation Army. Written by Sir Henry Rider Haggard, an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. With the misprint of two pages being numbered XXXVI, the second I for page XXXVII is missing, as cited from "A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Henry Rider Haggard 1859-1925" by J. E. Scott. In the original full red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Light spotting to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .

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Book number: 899T12

Catalogue: Social Sciences

Keywords: Poor Land Salvation Army Haggard Land Not Stated