Encyclopaedia Britannica, First Edition (247 results)

First edition, first printing; 3 vols; 4to in half-sheets (26 x 20 cm); half-title to each vol., 159 engraved plates (of 160, lacking plate 112 in 'Midwifery' section'), plates 117-132 printed on either side of 8 sheets, plate 146 folding, vol. 2 with 3 folding chemistry tables and 1 folding grammatical table, vol. 3 textually complete despite erratic pagination, plates 64 and 78 each with small closed tear to upper inner corner, plate 111 marked and with closed tear to foot, plate 133 bound slightly askew and consequently shaved at lower fore-edge, plate 146 somewhat creased, closed tear to grammatical table in volume 2; contemporary calf-backed glazed blue paper boards, spine caps and corners expertly restored, endpapers renewed, minor wear, a very good set; viii, 586, [10], 587-697; [4] 1009, [3]; [4], 280, 283-678, 879-953, [1]pp. The first edition of 'the most famous of all encyclopaedias in the English language' (PMM). A landmark Enlightenment text, the Britannica was the brainchild of the Edinburgh-based bookseller and printer, Colin Macfarquhar, and the engraver Andrew Bell. At the time, the city was arguably the intellectual centre of Britain, host to many of the nation's leading thinkers from David Hume to Adam Smith, and the gathering place of discussion clubs like The Select Society and The Poker Club where members met to debate advances in the arts and sciences. Macfarquhar and Bell conceived of the Britannica as a conservative reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot (published 1751 to 1766), which was widely viewed as heretical, but the key initiative that set the Britannica apart from other earlier encyclopaedias was its layout. Related topics were to be grouped together into longer essays, then organised alphabetically. Previously technical terms had been listed generally in alphabetical order, an approach that the Britannica derided as 'dismembering the sciences' (Preface). The 28-year-old press-corrector William Smellie was employed to provide the text. The result was originally issued in 100 parts (called 'numbers' and equivalent to thick pamphlets), which were later bound into three volumes. The first number appeared on December 6, 1768 in Edinburgh, priced 6d or 8d on finer paper, with the last issued in 1771. With two of the three midwifery plates depicting childbirth in clinical detail that so shocked King George III that he commanded that the pages be ripped from every copy. These plates are consequently rarely found (see Kogan, The Great EB: The Story Of The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1958, p.13). The other plates include human anatomy, animals and other natural history subjects, scientific instruments and industrial apparatus, geometrical propositions, and miscellaneous subjects ranging from types of cannon to specimens of shorthand; there are also several plates of music score and a small number of maps. Sets in any state of completeness are rare. A lovely copy in the original calf-backed glazed blue-paper boards from the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Perthshire. PMM 218; Collison pp138-55; Kogan, Herman (1958).

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA (illustrator). First London edition. This is an issue which uses the sheets of the first edition published in Edinburgh in 1771, with new preliminaries and a new preface made for the London audience. Three quarto volumes (10 1/4 x 8 inches; 260 x 204 mm). With 155 of 160 engraved copperplates, some of which are folding and some have been hand-colored. Some plates are bound out of sequence. (Vol I with 58 plates, Vol II with 55 of 56 plates and Vol III with 42 of 46 plates). Volume II is missing plate #63 and Volume III is missing plates 111, 112, 113 and 115. Plates 111-113 are the plates on Midwifery which are often lacking as people would extract them because they portray graphic scenes of childbirth. Each volume with half-title. This edition is edited by William Smellie. and the engravings are by Andrew Bell. We could find only one complete copy at auction since 1966. Bound in contemporary full mottled calf. Spines with some restoration. Morocco spine labels, Spines elaborately stamped in gilt and with a red and brown spine morocco label on each volume. Board edges tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Old ink ownership signature on front free endpaper of all volumes. Vol. I with a small tear to upper margin, not affecting text. on page 469 and some occasional minor dampstaining to fore-edge margin, not touching text. Vol. II with a repair to the crease of page one of the folding chemistry table. Generally pages are very clean. Overall a very lovely set. "The most famous of all encyclopaedias in the English language was sponsored by 'a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland'.The Edinburgh 'society' could well have consisted only of the editor, the antiquarian William Smellie (1740-95), the engraver, Andrew Bell (1726-1809), and the printer, Colin Macfarquhar (died 1793).The subtitle implicitly acknowledges the editor's indebtedness to Harris and Chambers, though later on (in the third edition of 1801) the dedication to the King sought to create the impression that the Britannica had been conceived as a means 'to counteract the tendency [of anarchy and atheism] of that pestiferous work', the French Encyclopédie [of Diderot]. In fact, Smellie defined its purpose far more sensibly and convincingly in the preface of the first edition: 'Utility ought to be the principal intention of every publication'. The Encyclopaedia Britannica appeared first in numbers.1768-71. The precedent of Moréri and Bayle was followed when the second edition, 1778-83, included history and biography.From the supplement to the fifth edition, 1816-24, onward the Encyclopaedia Britannica, following the example of the Encyclopédie, appended the signatures of the contributors of articles of original value.and leading scholars and men of letters of all nations have continued to lend the lustre of their names to all subsequent editions" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Printing and the Mind of Man 218. ESTC: N471190 HBS 68280. $20,000.

First edition, with all the title pages reading The New Royal Encyclopedia (see Alston); 3 volumes in 4, folio, 8-p. subscribers' list at the back of volume III (listing over 1500 names), contemporary full reversed paneled calf, red and black morocco labels on spine; engraved frontispiece in volume I and 153 engraved plates (including 7 folding maps) placed in a separate fourth volume (plate list calls for 150); some slight cracking of the joints on the plate volume, spine ends slightly chipped and/or rubbed, but otherwise very good and sound. Apparently issued in 150 parts. Not in Walsh, Anglo-American General Encyclopaedias; not in Circle of Knowledge; Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 13772; Alston III, 568 recording the third edition (1797?) only with the title The New Encyclopaedia: "The extraordinary variety of editions for each volume found in various copies makes this seem like a bookseller's hoax. The title page to the second volume in the Signet copy reads The New Royal Encyclopaedia . No acknowledgement is made to previous works . The usually found combination is as follows: vol. I - third edition; vol. II - second edition; vol. III - second edition. One of the editor's copies is clearly the first issue with all the title pages reading The New Royal Encyclopaedia and without and edition number.".

First Edition. Slim Quarto, [2] 79pp. Original burgandy morocco soft leather, gilt titles. Table of Contents.:MONEY. Metallic Money. Circumstances which led to the use of Money. Principal properties which all Commodities used as such ought to possess. Metallic Money not a Sign or a Measure of Value, but a real Equivalent. Circumstances which Regulate the Exchangeable Value of Money. : A Moderate Seignorage on Coined Money advantageous. Principles which should regulate its amount. Expense of a Currency consisting of the Precious Metals. How Paper is substituted for Coins, and its value maintained. Whether Gold or Silver should be adopted as the Standard of the Currency, or whether it should consist of both. Standard of Money. Duodecimal and Decimal systems of dividing Coins. Degradation of Coins in Rome, France, Great Britain, and other countries. Effects of this degradation. TABLES RELATIVE TO THE MONEY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND OTHER COUNTRIES: PAPER-MONEY. General Principles in regard to Paper-Money. Banks of Deposit and Banks of Issue. Principles on which they are established. Bank of England, Account of. Private and Joint-Stock Banks. Act of 1844. Objections to and Defence of that Act. Suspensions of in 1847 and 1857. Management of the Bank of England. TABLES exhibiting a View of the Issues, Securities, Bullion, &c., of the Bank of England, and of the Joint-Stock and Private Banks in England and Wales. Banks (Scotch).: Banking in Ireland. Banks of Venice, Amsterdam, &c.The Bank of France, : Banking in the United States. [ John Ramsey McCulloch was a Scottish economist, author and editor, widely regarded as the leader of the Ricardian school of economists after the death of David Ricardo in 1823. He was appointed the first professor of political economy at University College London in 1828. He wrote extensively on economic policy, and was a pioneer in the collection, statistical analysis and publication of economic data.] Excellent Copy. RARE FIRST EDITION.

First edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 431, [1, Errata] pp. Uncut in the original boards, rebacked with modern calf, spine lettered in gilt (neat ownership inscription 'WR Sorley' in black ink to front free endpaper, tiny closed tear to title page with some concertinaing of paper, not effecting text, old faint creasing to upper corners of pp. 55-80, a few occasional neat pencilled marginal annotations; corners heavily bumped, notwithstanding a very good copy). London, Baldwin and Cradock. The rare first edition of James Mill's final book, written in response to earlier critiques of his 'Essay on Government' by Thomas Macaulay and Sir James Mackintosh, with particular reference to Mackintosh's famous Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy that had been included in the 1830 seventh edition of the Encylopaedia Britannica. 'In his reply Mill reiterates and defends the arguments advanced in his Essay on Government: all men?including rulers and representatives?are moved mainly if not exclusively by considerations of self-interest, and therefore the only security for good government is to be found in making the interests of representatives identical with those of their constituents. But, unlike the cool, detached, and ostensibly deductive Essay on Government, Mill's reply contains a good deal of vitriol. He writes like a schoolmaster who, having lost all patience with a slow-witted pupil, is content to ridicule him before his cleverer classmates. The sight is not a pretty one, and shows James Mill at his polemical worst. Whether, or to what extent, such a splenetic rejoinder could suffice as a refutation is surely questionable' (Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy). John Stuart Mill would later write about his father's work in his Autobiography, reflecting that: ?His 'Fragment on Mackintosh' which he wrote and published about this time, although I greatly admired some parts of it, I read as a whole with more pain than pleasure; yet on reading it again, long after, I found little in the opinions it contains, but what I think in the main just; and I can even sympathise in his disgust at the verbiage of Mackintosh though his asperity towards it went beyond not only what was judicious, but beyond what was even fair.? From the library of the Scottish idealist philosopher W. R. Sorley (1855-1935), professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge University, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper and a few occasional pencilled marginal annotations in his hand.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Spine titles "History of Israel" and "Wellhausen". First English edition. Spine rubbed and scuffs at both ends, with outer surface missing for top 4mm. Corners bumped and edges have rubbing and signs of handling. Small black mark on title and opposite (as illus). Top of text block dusty. Contents clean, firm and vg condition, some age discolouration towards the front. The book consists of an author's Introduction and three major sections. Its argument is that the ancient Israelites did not practice a religion recognisable as Judaism: the earliest religion of the Israelites, as depicted in the Yahwist and Elohist sources, was polytheistic and family-based. Covid 19 - Please see "More Information" for current shipping terms.

1. Auflage,. With 15 Plates, 90 Seiten, Gutes Exemplar mit handschriftlicher Widmung des Verfassers Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 400 4°, grünes O Ln mit goldener Rückenbeschriftung.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. First Separate Edition. Small octavo, 365pp., illustrated, plus advertisements. A crisp, clean, very good or better copy in the publisher's green textured cloth. Expertly rebacked with original spine laid down. Ex-institutional library, with just a small, stately bookplate to the front paste-down, and no other markings. Foldout frontispiece is present and in excellent condition, with a single 2-inch tear along one fold. This copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Brewster on the front free endpaper: "To William Erskine Esq. from the Author." Though not confirmed, this Erskine is likely the Scottish orientalist and historian, who was a contemporary of Brewster's and a traveled in the same social circles as he in Edinburgh. We could locate no signed copies of this work by Brester in commerce or recent auction records. As such, a rare example.

First edition. Size: 4to. [i (title)], xix, 84pp. + 6 plates. Quarter leather with publisher's printed boards (scratched and grubby). Plates engraved by George Aikman; text printed by Thomas Allan & Co. From the collection of Christopher Hogwood (1941-2014).

Hardcover. Condition: Good + overall. Eleventh Edition. 29 volumes, "Handy Volume Issue" bound in the publishers brown full pebbled leather. This edition was developed during the encyclopedia's transition from a British to American publication, and was the last edition produced mostly in Britain, with articles by the best known scholars of the day. It was the first edition of Britannica to be issued with an Index volume, and the first to publish biographies of people still living. Articles were shortened, but their total number increased. As a compendium of world knowledge published just before the outbreak of WWI, this edition had its champions and detractors: Sir Kenneth Clark was a fan; Virginia Woolf was not. Controversial entries include its characterization of the Ku Klux Klan as a protector of whites, and its support of eugenics under the entry for "Civilization". Wikipeda- "Though it is generally perceived as a quintessentially British work, the eleventh edition had substantial American influences, in not only the increased amount of American and Canadian content, but also the efforts made to make it more popular. American marketing methods also assisted sales. Some 14% of the contributors (214 of 1507) were from North America, and a New York office was established to coordinate their work." India paper format, full of detailed illustrations, printed b&w photographic illustrations and color fold out maps. Folding maps in very good condition; single page plates with some light foxing. 8vo, brown full pebbled leather binding, "Handy Volume Issue" in gilt on spines. Bindings are wrapped in protective clear covers. 7 volumes with spine displaced but present, (see images) several with spine tips rubbed through. Index hinge cracked on eps. A heavy set weighing approx. 60 lbs. (27 kilos), and may require additional shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 12 volumes, including a Reference volume (volume 1) and a Study Guide (volume 12). Small quartos (each volume 7Ÿ" x 10"). Heavily illustrated in color and black and white. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in silver. Very near fine with mild wear at the corners, neat date inked in volume 1, and volume 7 partially topstained a vivid blue, most likely a binding error. Housed in the publisher's decorative papercovered wooden box (11œ" x 11œ" x 8œ") with some superficial wear, sound and square, very good or better. Prepared under the supervision of the editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Laid in is the work of young scholar Charles Norton, six drawings and two short essays ("Bird Conservation," and "History of American Music," the latter written for Troop #41). A bright, fresh set of charming, wide-ranging, and heavily illustrated children's encyclopedias from the 1930s, in their original decorative box.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii,165,[3]p. : ill., 2 folding plates ; 8°. Subjects; Hydraulic engineering History 19th century Sources. Canals Design and construction. River engineering. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First printing as a separate treatise. xvi, 90, printed in double column except for the Introduction, and followed by the 15 plates, five being double-page, and one of these folding. A little foxing to the plates, text clean. Original yellow endpapers, with professional repairs to hinges. Large quarto, in contemporary grained brown cloth ruled in blind: rebacked, with the original spine with faded gilt title relaid. A very nice copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Andrew Bell (illustrator). 1st Edition. Later blue cloth with title label to the front board. Title page with an important article on naval tactics. The article and set of copper plate engravings are genuine 18th century originals and produced on fine quality laid paper.The article describes naval tactics during the Napoleonic Wars. The history of naval tactics, the system in use in1797 (10 chapters), a new system (de Grenier's Tactics and Clerk of Elgin's tactics). These articles are accompanied by seven full page copper plate engraved plates showing various manoeuvres and orders of battle. (Pages 270-296 from Vol. XIII). A nice tight and square copy with minimal wear. Size: 8.5' x 10.5" Language: eng.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii,165,[3]p. : ill., 2 folding plates ; 8°. Subjects; Hydraulic engineering History 19th century Sources. Canals Design and construction. River engineering. 1 Kg.

First edition. [4], 227pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's gilt-stamped dark green cloth. Lightly rubbed and marked. Upper hinge exposed. Presentation copy, inscribed by the publisher to recto of FFEP: 'To William Lawson Esq. / From his Scotch Friend / Charles Black / Edinburgh / 9 April 1838'. Two substantial essays relating to the arts - extracted from the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica (1830-1842) - by history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) and writer and artist William Hazlitt (1778-1830) respectively. Hazlitt's contribution, 'The Fine Arts', is primarily a critique of the concept of the ideal as laid out in the Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Charles Black (1807-1854) partnered with his uncle, Scottish publisher Adam Black (1784- 1874), in 1834, formerly establishing the renowned firm A. & C. Black. The senior Black had acquired the copyright to the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1831. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xi, [1], 155, [1] pages. Bookplate from Ship's Library U.S.S. Bridge. Bookplate of a previous owner (Robert R. Martin) on fep. Appendix (bibliography). Index, Boards and spine somewhat stained and spotted. Major-General Sir John Frederick Maurice KCB (1841-1912) was a senior British Army officer, chiefly remembered for his military writings. Maurice served as private secretary to Sir Garnet Wolseley in the Ashanti Campaign of 1873-1874; in the Zulu War in 1880; was deputy assistant adjutant general of the Egyptian expedition in 1882; and was brevetted colonel in 1885. In 1885-1892 he was professor of military history at the Staff College, Camberley, and in 1895 was promoted to major general. In 1905 Maurice was part of a team which went to Berlin to negotiate with the Germans on the problems of the Navy estimates and the escalating threat posed to the Empire. The first USS Bridge (AF-1) was the lead ship of her class of stores ships for the United States Navy, and served in both World War I and World War II. Bridge was launched on 18 May 1916 at the Boston Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. Granville Searcy Fleece, a grandniece of Commodore Bridge; and commissioned on 2 June 1917, Lieutenant Commander W. K. Riddle in command. Following her commissioning Bridge loaded stores and provisions, and transported and issued them to the fleet and shore stations. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 12mo. [2], lvi, 235pp. Illustrated with a mounted gold-toned gelatin silver portrait photograph of Macaulay, bound-in as the frontispiece with a tissue guard. Contemporary purple morocco over boards, both covers have the same design stamped in blind, gilt spine, gilt turn-ins, cream endpapers, all edges gilt. Two early inscriptions, in pencil and ink, on front free endpaper. The spine, joints, and edges of the boards are rubbed and worn, scattered foxing on two leaves at the front, a good or better copy in a handsome binding.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Excellent Condition like new . 4to. 2 volumes, on antique paper and bound in antique style dark brown morocco grain fabrikoid, raised bands. Can be sold separately each 175$ and Let me know. Extra charge for shipping required. The original price for 3 books set was 275$ over 30 years ago.

Cloth Hardbacks. Condition: Good - Used. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jackets as Issued. Original 1890 Set (NAP). This set contains 96 colored maps - mostly fold-outs. A few volumes have interior hing-cracks and the preface of volume one is a little loose. One map has a little bit of a ragged edge. The covers are dark green with gilt spine titles and show age and wear butare overall attractive enoguh. A good-used set. 4tos - over 9Ÿ" - 12" Tall Size: 4tos - over 9Ÿ" - 12" Tall.

8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece; original plum cloth, upper board with triple frame border enclosing a frieze image all in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, bevelled edges, green endpapers, uncut, backstrip moderately faded (but all lettering entirely legible), expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. With the binder's ticket of Burn on rear paste-down. This copy was purchased by Major General Richard Westmacott KCB on 17 August 1909 from George Sully, bookseller, of Kingston-on-Thames. The original purchase invoice (completed in MS) together with Sully's elaborate trade card and a contemporary newspaper obituary of the author, are loosely inserted. A SPLENDID FAMILY ASSOCIATION COPY OF WESTMACOTT'S SCARCEST WORK.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 290 pages, [4] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, map ; 21 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Physical geography; Physical; Geography. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 290 pages, [4] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, map ; 21 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Physical geography; Physical; Geography. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST BOOKFORM EDITION, and first combined edition. 4 to. Orig. cloth. (6), 30, (6, including inserted errata for 'Heat'), (31)-66 pp. Text figs. Separate titles for 'Elasticity' and 'Heat' dated 1878 and 1880, respectively. Small ownership rubberstamp of the 20th C. physicist, Samuel Jacobsohn. A very good copy. William Thomson (1824-1907) was for 53 years professor of natural philosophy at Glasgow where he was a pioneer of thermodynamics and electromagnetic theory. The absolute scale of temperature, which he proposed in 1848, is now known as Kelvin scale. Roller & Goodman II.30.

8vo, pp. 298-334; some small ink stains to margins and to small area of text on p. 308, some light foxing, a crisp copy, disbound.First edition. A review by Thomas Malthus of John Ramsay McCulloch's famous essay on political economy.In 1822 McCulloch was invited to write the first considerable article on political economy to appear in the supplement to the fourth edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica (1823). The result established David Ricardo's system as epitomising 'the true and correct principles of political economy' and was later expanded into a popular textbook entitled Principles of political economy, with a sketch of the rise and progress of the science (1825), which went through five editions. Ricardo considered McCulloch's essay 'a valuable historical sketch' and 'so clear an exposition of all the important principles of the science that you have left nothing for me to wish for', but Malthus's Quarterly Review article was more critical.While conceding that much of McCulloch's article was 'ably accomplished', Malthus states that the author had 'fallen into some most important errors' which required pointing out. Malthus considered Ricardo, McCulloch, and James Mill to be representatives of a 'new school of political economy' which had departed from the school represented by Adam Smith and himself. Malthus's 38 page review gives 'an excellent and readable résumé of Malthus's own position as an economist; according to Empson (Edinburgh Review, Vol. LXIV, p. 496) Malthus himself considered this article 'one of the best things which he had ever done in Political Economy'' (P. James, Population Malthus p. 487).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. SINGLE REVIEW VOLUME, PUBLISHED 1903. A Review of the Tenth Edition, Being Specimen Pages and Extracts from the Encyclopedia Britannica, Now Completed in 35 Quarto Volumes, Treating of History, Geography, Biography, Commerce, Industry, Art, Law, Literature, Music, Drama, Philosophy, Races & Creeds, Medicine, Army & Navy, the Colonies, Agriculture, Politics, Economics, Biology, Engineering, Science, & All Other Subjects. Front cover title: "Newly Completed Tenth Edition of The Encyclopaedia Britannica - A Library for Leisured Reading, Dictionary of Facts for Rapid Reference, All Human Knowledge, Brought up to the Present Year. 35 Large Quarto Volumes, 26,000 Articles, 12,000 Illustrations, 30,000 Pages, 2,100 Distinguished Contributors, 40,000,000 Words, With an Index of 603,851 Entries". With publisher's 2-page printed note at front. Illustrated in b&w and colour, with 34 full-page plates (one being a double-page colour map of Central Africa), plus smaller in-text illustrations. Text printed in black & red. Large format volume. Printed in England. Bound in publisher's original printed thick-card boards, backed by unlettered dark blue cloth spine. NOTE: A GOOD COPY ONLY. Handling wear, staining to rear pages, foxing, otherwise a clean tight solid hardcover copy. 220pp. Heavy volume, extra shipping may be required. Scarce. SB-69.

1st edition extracted from The Review. Large 8vo. 159 to 189pp ( 31 pages ). Begins middle of page & finishes bottom of page. Binders marks along inside edge where extracted from bound volume ( could be trimmed ). Clean & tight. VG.

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Encyclopaedia Britannica Receipt for Work Undertaken and Signed by Writer Francis Hindes Groome. Dated 1872. Francis Hindes Groome 1851 ? 1902 was a writer and foremost commentator of his time on the Romani people, their language, life, history, customs, beliefs, and lore. He was the son of Robert Hindes Groome, Archdeacon of Suffolk. Size is 200mm x 100mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18812. Signed by Author(s).

1st Edition, 8vo (20cm), viii, 365pp (1), 2pp (adverts), Folding map of the world's 'magnetic curves' opposite title. Untrimmed in publisher's grained cloth. Plate of 'Whitsome Subscription Library' to front pastedown. Binidng sound. Wear and marks to board. Splits to upper joints. A little light staining to the upper margins, but generally very clean.

Half Leather. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. Large 4to, 800pp. Profusely illustrated, with 80 full-page colored maps and nearly 2,000 engravings. Hardcover, bound in original black leather over cloth boards. Gilt title and four gilt-embossed bands to spine. In very good condition. Binding and hinges are intact and firm. Contents are clean and unmarked with no signs of prior ownership. Minor shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities. Gilt remains sharp and bright. A well-preserved copy, beautifully illustrated.