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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: xvi, 486 pp. plus pub. cat. Illustrated throughout. 12mo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Old bookplate; slighest of use to the cloth at extremities; clean, tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.77 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Chatto and Windus, 1882. Hardback, 8vo, xvi,486pp, illust, 32pp catalogue (November, 1881). Owner blind stamp to title, some foxing, new endpapers. Rebound in original brown cloth, decorated in black and gilt, some loss to spine, a little rubbed and worn. A fair copy. /0.8uk
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
ASHTON,JOHN. Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. chatto and windus london 1882, 1882.
Price: US$34.22 + shipping
Description: first edition 486pp ills. VG- (brown cloth w.gilt stamps,mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.bumps and wear to extrems.incl.hinges,shaky boards,owner's sign.to ffep,paper separation starting at title gutter,prelims.and edges sl.foxed w.some foxing to contents,spine cracked w.separation starting at some sectionscocked w.shaky spine)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full brown cloth binding with gilt embossed title on front cover and spine. Many facsimile engravings and woodcuts.
Seller: Alan Angele Popular Culture, IOBA, Upper Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.24 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 18.5 x 12 cm. xvi, 486 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth with gilt and black decorations and title on front board and spine. Appears to be recased, using new end papers. Very good condition. A little slant. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges age darkened. Ex Library with a few small stamps throughout. Sprache: english.
Seller: West Coast Rare Books, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
ASHTON JOHN. CHAP-BOOKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. LONDON CHATTO AND WINDUS, 1882.
Price: US$90.18 + shipping
Description: .WITH FACSIMILIES, NOTES AND INTRODUCTION. ORIGINAL BROWN CLOTH, GILT DECORATION TO THE FRONT BOARD. xvi, 486 pp. BOOKPLATE OF JAMES DIGBY FIRTH, A VERY NICE COPY.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xvi+486pp (dated 1882) plus 32pp Pub.Cat. (dated 1884). VG copy RE-BACKED in brown cloth with red and gilt title label, gilt bands, retaining original boards with black and gilt decorations, just a little wear to extremes. Little dusty on few page edges but still a nice copy. (Possibly the later-dated Publisher's Catalogue was bound-in when the spine was re-placed). A fascinating edition describing over 100 chap-books with some excellent woodcut illustrations. A wide range of subjects presenting the news headlines of the day. (M Heavy item, may require additional postage on overseas orders).
Seller: Clifford Elmer Books, CHEADLE, CHES, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: A fascinating first edition collection of chapbooks, a popular form of street literature, from the eighteenth century. The first edition. In the original pictorial cloth binding. With an engraved frontispiece and numerous woodcut illustrations throughout. A collection of chap-books printed in the eighteenth century, with facsimiles, notes and a detailed introduction by John Ashton. Chap-books were small publications cheaply printed as a form of street literature. They were one of the only sources of reading material available for the poorer classes, and were often read aloud to audiences. Titles mentioned include Robin Hood, Reynard the Fox and Valentine and Orson. In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some shelf wear to the edges and bumping to the spine. A few light marks to the boards. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean with some spotting towards the front and rear blanks, and just the odd spot throughout. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: xvi, 486 pp. Illustrated. 4to, full crushed brown morocco, gilt-ruled spine with raised bands, t.e.g.; by Zaehnsdorf. First edition; Large Paper; No. 46 of 175 copies. Some scattered inoffensive foxing; otherwise very attractive and handsomely bound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Ashton, John. Chap-books of The Eighteenth Century. Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, London, 1882.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Standard work. Three quarter purple calf and boards, some fading by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. xvi, 486 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, last gathering sprung. A very good copy.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. 8vo. xvi,486pp. Engraved frontis and numerous illustrations in text. Brown original cloth covers, black banding and design on front, gilt figure and lettering on front and spine. Black eps. Small bookseller's ticket inside front cover. Very slight rubbing top/bottom spine & corners. Very slight foxing to prelims & trails & outside edges of pages. Clean, tight & attractive copy. VG+.
Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Ashton, John.. Chap - Books of the Eighteenth Century.. , 1882.
Price: US$173.92 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edn, Chatto & Windus, London, 1882. 8vo, xvi, 486p. Frontispiece and many engravings in the text. Pencil inscr, a fine copy in original pictorial cloth gilt.
Seller: A G Cram, Leeds, United Kingdom
Ashton, John. Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. Chatto and Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece, xvi, 486p. LARGE PAPER COPY. Limited to 150 numbered copies whereof this is #36. Half vellum over boards with paper label and untrimmed foredge. Binders ticket of Burn & Co. on the lower portion of the inside rear boards. Light soiling to the spine otherwise internally a fresh clean copy.
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7 3/4 inches x 10 1/8 in., numbered limitation page; frontispiece; xvi, 486 + page with publisher's device; illustrated with reproductions of woodcuts, typographic facsimiles of title-pages, etc. Dark brown mottled leather spine and sides, corner-pieces, with five raised bands on the spine, red leather title label, gilt designs, and marbled paper over boards, top-edge gilt. The spine ends and edges, cover corners show some wear, rubbing, bookplate removed from the front paste-down; some age-related tanning, small, scattered spots present on some pages. Booksellers stamp on tope-edge of the reverse of the front endpaper: Charles E. Lauriat Co. Boston. Weight: 4 lbs.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
ASHTON, John. Chap-books of the eighteenth century. Chatto and Windus, 1882.
Price: US$499.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1882 1st ed Chapbooks Folklore Legends Superstition Medieval Woodcuts Ashton the only reading matter for the poorer classes, provided a fascinating way into the heroes and legends in popular literature! This incredible first edition of John Ashtons collection of chapbooks is illustrated with reproductions of woodcuts, typographical facsimiles, and figures. The stories in this book depict the lives and work of chapmen or peddlers, shoemakers, millers, martyrs, and other medieval low-society lives. Chapbooks were virtually the only reading matter for the poorer classes and provide for the modern reader a fascinating way into the heroes and legends, folklore and superstitions that prevailed in the popular literature of the age. (Letellier 118) This book is one of the three most important works on the study of chapbooks, and is the only one from before the 20th-century. John Ashtons is sometimes eccentric but still valuable. (Simons 16). This book provides over 100 chapbooks and facsimiles of the original covers and woodcut illustrations (Letellier 118). According to the 1882 Annual Register, Mr. Ashton shows a stratum of the literature of the time ignored as a rule by those who explore its more cultivated depths. Throughout the preceding age the chapbooks, or penny books of 16-24 pages, carried in the pedlars pack and hawked about, constituted the only mental food of the poorer classes. This collection, illustrated by characteristic woodcuts, contains many of the old stories and legends familiar to us from our youth as nursery rhymes and fairy tales, as Robin Hood, Reynard the Fox, Valentine and Orson, while the ignorance and superstition of the poor were appealed to in diabolical, legendary, and supernatural tales of the most extraordinary kind. Item number: #16177 Price: $499 ASHTON, John Chap-books of the eighteenth century London : Chatto and Windus, 1882. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete with all pages xvi, 486, [2] Heavily illustrated throughout References: Simons, From Medieval to Medievalism; Letellier, The English Novel, 1700-1740: An annotated bibliography. Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure Decorative cloth Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19.5cm x 13.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 16177 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.