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Verlag: Edward Baines, Conder, Bucklersbury, Button, Etc, 1804
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. 1804. No Edition Remarks. 613 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue paper covered boards with blue cloth to spine. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Volume VIII. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Rough-cut pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Brown staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Light tanning to spine and edges. Noticeable splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Loss to corners. Black marks overall.
Verlag: Printed at the office of J. Nicholson; Printed by Davies & Co. 1824; 1815, Halifax; Leeds, 1824
Anbieter: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2 books bound in one volume: viii, 468; v, 161 p. 22 cm. Frontispiece in second section shows Co. Gardiner's conversion. Quarter leather with marbled paper boards. Wrapped in protective mylar, removed for photo. Worn extremities. Boards rubbed. Ink signature of former owners on front pastedown and first title page verso. Some small tears, spots, thumbing. Index pages of first volume are chipped, not affecting text, with a couple of non-professional tape repairs. Rear free endpaper has a repaired upper edge, lower edge roughened. Title of first book continues: "Containing a particular survey of the most remarkable and well authenticated accounts of Apparitions, Ghosts, Spectres, Dreams and Visions: With some valuable extracts from the works of the Rev. John Wesley, the Rev. David Simpson, and others." Examples include the apparition that appeared to Brutus, the "Ominous Presage" to Robert Bruce of Scotland, the vision seen by Doctor Donne, King Alfred's dying words to his son, etc. TPL 2389 for 1840 edition. Watters p. 238 for 1840 edition. Second book title continues: "with an Appendix relating to the Ancient Family of the Monroes, of Fowlis." The appendix begins on p. 149. Printed in Leeds, West Yorkshire, but pertains to the Battle of Prestonpans (modern spelling), East Lothian, Scotland, the first major battle of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Second book written by Philip Doddridge to David Gardiner, a cornet in Sir John Cope's regiment of Dragoons and the son of Col. Gardiner who was killed at Prestonpans. The Royal Army took a horrific beating by the Scots. Much of this account speaks of Gardiner's family history and his conversion as a Christian. Also contains an elegy on the death of Col. Gardiner by Rev. Thomas Gibbons.