Ward Lock & Co 1894. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1894 EDITION. Ex-Library college with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/soiling and bumped corners. Binding is still fairly tight. Book slightly shelf-cocked.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Ward, Lock, & Co hardcover
Richard Bentley 1849. Hardcover. Good. 1849. No Edition Remarks. 402 pages. Fully bound in chestnut brown leather with intricate tooling gilt lettering and decoration. Rebound. Chapters include Mesmerism Clairvoyance and Witchcraft. A fascinating volume. Volume 2 of 2. Pages remain clear with minimal marking. Slight tanning throughout. Occasional thumb mark evident. Ex Libris plate to front paste-down. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Peeling and loss to leather elements. Marking and staining to the leather boards. Gilt lettering has become dull. Richard Bentley hardcover
Richard Bentley 1849. Hardcover. Good. 1849. No edition remarks. 354 pages. Fully bound in brown leather with gilt to spine. Marbled end-papers and text-block edges. Two ex libris plates to front paste-down bearing the names James A. Coulter and Harley B Mitchell. Pages with some foxing and tanning particularly to end-papers and text-block edges. Coloured pencil inscription beneath ex-libris plates and faint pencil inscriptions to reverse of front free end-paper and on last page. Binding remains firm. Hinges are cracked with splitting to end paper. Boards have moderate wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself strongly scuffed. Gilt dulled. Board surfaces scratched and rubbed. Front boards remains flat but rear is bowed and wrinkled suggesting water damage. Richard Bentley hardcover
London: Richard Bentley Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1849. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 6". None. The very scarce first edition of this thorough nineteenth-century history of esoteric disciplines and their relationship to the modern sciences by Henry Christmas in two volumes with the original boards. The first edition of this work in two volumes. Published by Richard Bentley a significant nineteenth-century publisher known for the 'Standard Novels' series he created with Henry Colburn. The 'Standard Novel' series sought to reprint popular works that were out of print or that were yet to be made available in a format that was financially accessible to the middle classes.With the original boards. With the mark of Remnant & Edmonds bookbinders to the rear pastedown of Volume I.  Very scarce.Henry Christmas was an English clergyman periodical editor and man of letters who having graduated from St John's college Cambridge went on to become librarian and secretary of Sion College in London. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries in London. The Cradle of the Twin Giants examines the role of popular mythology in preserving ideas surrounding the occult alchemy and the paranormal and considers the impact of such popularity on cultural interest in rational thought. In full cloth bindings with blind stamping to the boards. Externally sound with minor marks fading and rubbing to the boards and age discolouration to the spines. A marginal nick to the spine's cloth of Volume I and bumping to the head and tail of the spines and extremities resulting in slight lifting of the cloth. Dust dulling to the text blocks' top edges. Rubbing to parts of the list of works on the pastedown of Volume II in addition to some marks and chips to the decorative paper covering the pastedowns recto of the front first free endpaper and verso of the rear first free endpaper for both volumes. Archival mark to rear pastedown of Volume II. Some cockling to front endpapers of Volume I. Hinges tender. Internally binding is strained. Pages are generally bright and clean with light toning some and the odd spot and fractional marks closed tears and chips not impacting text. leaves coming from between front first free endpaper-xii of Volume I and pp. 288-402 of Volume II resulting in some leaves starting to come away from the text block spine. Good Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. hardcover
Paperback / softback. New. Published in 1849 this two-volume set examines how popular mythology kept alive beliefs about the occult alchemy and the paranormal. Examining witchcraft astrology mesmerism alchemy and much more Henry Christmas shows how some of these beliefs were so entrenched that they were held almost as facts even influencing rational thought. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9781108037624 ISBN : 1108037623 9781108037624
Paperback / softback. New. Published in 1849 this two-volume set examines how popular mythology kept alive beliefs about the occult alchemy and the paranormal. Examining witchcraft astrology mesmerism alchemy and much more Henry Christmas shows how some of these beliefs were so entrenched that they were held almost as facts even influencing rational thought. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9781108037631 ISBN : 1108037631 9781108037631
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