Robert Southey. Roderick, The Last of the Goths. Longman, Hurst, Hees, Orme, and Brown, 1818.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A beautiful 2-volume set. Bound in calf leather with gilt borders, front and back. Gilt page edges and marbled endpapers. Stated fifth edition. Original owner's name written lightly at top of title page. Small sticker containing the name of a subsequent owner affixed to the inside front cover at the top. Marvelous condition for books more than 200 years old.
Seller: Friends of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A particularly nice 2 volume set. Includes engraved title and 6 engraved plates by R. Westfall. Fully bound in contemporary diced calf leather with gilt borders to front and rear boards, spines with 4 raised bands and gilt decorations and gilt printing. Marbled page block and marbled endpapers. Front board of V.1 is somewhat unattached, both volumes have wear to corners and some light foxing to internal pages. Previous owners' names penned to title page (V.1) and to FEP reverse (V.2) Text is clear and illustrations are bright. AD
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Southey, Robert. Roderick, The Last Of The Goths. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme And Brown, 1818.
Price: US$38.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback 2 volume set fifth edition. Vol 1 ix, 297 pp Vol 2 292 pp + 2 pp adverts. Both volumes are half bound with marbled paper and calf. The corners, paper and spine are a worn. The bindings are nice and tight and each volume has a armorial bookplate on the front pastedown.
Seller: P Rulton Rare Books, Leominster, United Kingdom
Southey, Robert. Roderick, the Last of the Goths. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Two volumes. Fourth edition of 1816. Full leather with ornate gilding, 4 raised bands with gilt titles and devices, worn and scraped. Vol. 1 spine very much chipped. Erasure on title pages. Ownership of Fraser Tytler family members (Lord Woolhouslee).
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Description: 5. Auflage / Fifth edition. 1 von 2 Bänden. Kl.8°. IX, 297 S. Ledereinband auf vier echten Bünden und 2 Rückenschildchen, goldgeprägtem Rückendekor, gold- und blindgeprägten Deckelverzierungen, Stehkantenvergoldung. Einband leicht berieben, Kanten etwas beschabt, papierbedingt minimal gegilbt und stellenweise mit kleinen Stockfleckchen, S. 69 ohne Textverlust eingerissen, insgesamt gut erhalten. / Contemp calf with two labels to spine, gilt and blind stamped decoration. Some rubbing and chafing, sligtly yellowed and partly minimal foxing, S.69 with a tear, generally in good condition. Sehr hübscher Einband: goldgeprägtes florales Ornamentband mit Eichelmotiven, blindgeprägtes Muschel-Ornament, blindgeprägtes Blumen-Ornament, kleine schwarzgeprägte Vignette , sowie schwarzgeprägte Eicheln mit Blättern. Vorder- und Rückdeckel gleich. Auch der Rücken ist reich verziert. - Very nice decorated covers and back. *************UNSERE WINTERAKTION MIT 25% RABATT (im Angebotspreis enthalten). WIR FREUEN UNS AUF IHR INTERESSE AN UNSEREN OBJEKTEN****************
Seller: Antiquariat Schwarz & Grömling GbR, Berlin, Germany
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fifth edition. Two volumes in one, each with a separate title page. 12mo. Half calf and light purple moiré cloth. The front board is detached, the spine back lacks the top compartment (about 1 inch from the crown), else a good or better sound copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.97 + shipping
Description: Hardback. Very attractive two volume set, half bound in maroon leather. The fifth edition of this 1814 poem about Roderick the 8th century king of the Visigoths in what is now Spain. Maroon Morocco to spine and corners. corners gilt ruled. Raised bands to spine with fine gilt pattern, gilt titles to two compartments and decorations to remaining compartments. Maroon paper to boards. 170 by 100mm (6¾ by 4 inches). 297+293pp. Spines are attractive with bright gilt and just some small light scuffs. Leather to the faces and corners has more pronounced scuffing with some exposed board to corners to both volumes and a small area of surface loss to the leather of the spine margin upper board of volume one. Joints and hinges are sound. Clean. Good+ set
Seller: C L Hawley (PBFA), Skipton, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fifth edition. Two volume set. 16mo. Decorative green leather elaborately gilt-stamped, all edges gilt. Owner's inked notation/name on title, front hinges cracked, spines and edges darkened, some loss of the spine heads, still a very good set. Poetry.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Southey, Robert. Roderick, the Last of the Goths. Longman, Hurst, 1818.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Full deep teal basket weave calf with spine elaborately gilt. Owner's gift inscription dated 1823 in both volumes, edges and joints lightly rubbed but with hinges tight, and a chip to the head of volume one. overall a very good set in a very handsome and unusual binding. Now in protective mylar.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.