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Southey, Robert. The Book of the Church Vol II. John Murray, London,, 1824.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 6 X 8.75 inches 528 pages. Green and brown spine hardcover. Rebound and withdrawn library copy with gilt type on spine. Stickers on cover and stamps on end pages. No other names or marks but somer foxing and noticeable waviness to the pages. Solid square binding. From the dissolution of the monasteries to the ascent of William and Mary.
Seller: Ally Press Center, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Southey, Robert. The Book of the Church; Vol 1. John Murray, London, 1824.
Price: US$17.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half bound in leather and patterned boards, wear to edges, spine in good condition although ends rubbed. Small booksellers label ((Bewley, Broxbourne) at top of front pastedown, mild foxing on first and last few pages otherwise clean, firm and little read volume. Contents for both volumes. Covers the beginning of the CofE to the Reign of Henry VII. xxxvii + 407pps. Covid 19 - Please see "More Information" for current shipping terms.
Seller: Broadwater Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
Southey, Robert. The Book of the Church Vol II. John Murray, London, 1824.
Price: US$17.18 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half bound in leather and patterned boards, wear to edges, spine in good condition although ends rubbed and top frayed. Small booksellers label ((Bewley, Broxbourne) at top of front pastedown, mild foxing on first and last few pages otherwise clean, firm and little read volume.From the dissolution of the monasteries to the ascent of William and Mary. 511 pps. Covid 19 - Please see "More Information" for current shipping terms.
Seller: Broadwater Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
Price: US$17.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: LONDON : 1824. Volume 1 of 2. Hardback Original brown pebble-grained cloth spine; pale blue paper-covered boards. Gilt lettered spine. Untrimmed edges as issued. owner name or internal markings. Binding tight and clean. Minor wear; VERY GOOD. (xxxvii), 407 pages. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping** [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Literature, Rarities, Theology and History. ]. 8vo.
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Southey Robert:. The Book of the Church. London: John Murray Second Edition, 1824.
Price: US$20.35 + shipping
Description: The story of the Church in Britain, presented in two Volumes. Vol 1, xxxvii, 407pp, Book plates of previous owners to front pastedown and fep. Vol 2, 511pp. Book plate of previous owner to fep. Both volumes bound in half leather, spines banded with red insets, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Some light rubbing to all edges and spines. Pencil inscriptions of previous owner to reverse feps and to margins within volumes. Two VG+ copies. Nice set, pictures available.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
SOUTHEY, Robert.. The Book of the Church.. London. John Murray. (Second edition)., 1824.
Price: US$35.62 + shipping
Description: 2 vols of 2. (207 x 135). pp, xxxvii, (3), 407, (1); (ii), 511, (1). Ex library. (New College, Oxford). Contents clean. Bookplates to front pastedown and library marks to front endpapers. Marbled endpapers and to all edges. Full calf with tooled and gilt borders to all boards. Library reback in tan cloth to match with replacement red and gilt title labels and with new tan cloth corners. Gilt library numbers to foot of spines.
Seller: Richard V. Wells ABA, ILAB, TEIGNMOUTH, United Kingdom
Southey, Robert. Book of the Church, The (Complete in Two Volumes). John Murray, London, 1824.
Price: US$48.34 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good-. Bound in contemporaneous full calf, beatifully decorated with dicing and gilt etc. In need of rebacking - top and bottom chunks of spine of volume 1 are missing and the whole spine of volume 2 is missing. Both front boards and the back board of volume 2 are loose, held only by the hinges. Spine joints cracked. Ex-library; usual stamps and markings. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. 407pp + 511pp.
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Robert Southey. The Book of The Church Vol. I only. John Murray, London, 1824.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: This book is volume I only. Measuring approximately 8.75" x 5.5" with 394 numbered pages. This book is in very good condition. Minor bumping to both ends of spine. Gilt lettering on spine and boards still full and vivid. Boards are partially marbled. Front gutter is cracked. Heavy foxing to all edges of textblock. Front hinge cracked. Previous owner's book plate on front pastedown. Book plate belonged to an Edward Lord Suffield who appeared to be a British liberal politician. Moderate foxing throughout interior pages. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N5-86).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Southey, Robert. The Book of the Church. John Murray, London, 1824.
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 2 vols set, xxix 394; 528pp full green calf gilt, marbled edges and eps, leather much rubbed with title labels lacking, 1/5 of backstip from vol II hanging, ownership signature, apparently bound without half-titles, internally clean and sound, Southey was onetime Poet Laureate
Seller: Salsus Books (P.B.F.A.), Kidderminster, United Kingdom
Southey, Robert. Book of the Church. John Murray, London, 1824.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes, complete. Second Edition. Original full calf leather, black morocco title labels, raised bands w/ gilt panel decorations, (9" x 6"). 407, 511 pages. History of the Church in England. Some general overall wear and rubbing, sign of once popular shellac application to spines for preservation, internally clean and tight. Size: Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
SOUTHEY (Robert). The Book of the Church. Second Edition.. London: John Murray., 1824.
Price: US$139.92 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xxxvii [xxxviii blank, xxxix drop-title, xl blank], 407 [408 blank]; [ii], 511 [512 blank], contemporary polished calf, gilt spines, marbled edges and end-papers; spines slightly worn, but a very good set. From the Easton Neston Library, with library label for shelf mark and the armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart., Rufford Hall Lancashire on the front paste-down end-paper. Geoffrey Carnall in his book Robert Southey and his Age (1960) notes that this attempt to write the lives of the "heroes of our religion" produced an account that "was infected with heresy. In the course of the book he fell foul of several of the Thirty-Nine Articles. He sympathized with Pelagius, an d indirectly attacked St. Paul's teaching on faith. He seemed to think that Romanism would be an excellent religion if it were stripped of its ecclesiastical abuses, and if the popes were men like Fenelon."
Seller: John Price Antiquarian Books, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United Kingdom
SOUTHEY (Robert). The Book of the Church. In Two Volumes. John Murray, London, 1824.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes, contemporary diced russia gilt, worn, joints breaking, bound without half titles, name on end-paper. Simmons Southey, 38. First edition
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
SOUTHEY, Robert.. The Book of The Church.. London: John Murray, 1824., 1824.
Price: US$187.94 + shipping
Description: In two volumes. First edition. Tall 8vo., full cont. calf, xxix, 394; 528pp. Inner hinges of volume one reinforced with cloth, outer front hinge of volume two cracked and tender, a good set only.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
SOUTHEY (Robert). The Book of the Church. In Two Volumes. John Murray, London, 1824.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Two volumes, octavos, contemporary half calf, bit worn, spine labels slightly chipped, bookplate, minor foxing, complete with half titles, nice. Simmons Southey, 38. First edition.
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
Southey, Robert. The Book of the Church. John Murray, London, 1824.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Three-quarter calf, marbled boards, red and black spine labels. Title label of Vol. I lacking, else About Fine. Contemporary owner's signature
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Southey, Robert. THE BOOK OF THE CHURCH. John Murray, 1824.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book bound in a beautiful red Moroccan Leather. Five raised bands on spine, gilt design between borders, ruled gilt border on board edges with inner gilt design, all edges gilt. Blue cloth paper on verso of boards and endpages. Two volumes bound in one, first volume 407 pages, second volume 509 pages, second edition. Hinges tight, very light edgewear else book in very good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cape Cod Booksellers, Yarmouth, MA, U.S.A.
Southey, Robert. The Book of the Church (2 volumes). John Murray, 1824.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Beautiful copies of the 2-volume first edition. Very little foxing. Quarter leather corners and spines show considerable shelfwear, but remarkably clean set. Will send photos upon request.
Seller: Bibliolio Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Robert Southey. NELSON FAMILY PRESENTATION COPY The Life of Nelson. London John Murray 1824, 1824.
Price: US$1208.42 + shipping
Description: Richly provenanced Nelson family association copy presented by Horatio Nelson's niece Charlotte Nelson to the future Admiral Richard Crozier. Two handsome small octavo volumes bound in straight grain red morocco with gilt decoration; all edges gilt; grey coated endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Richard Crozier to both front paste-downs. Charlotte Hood - formerly Nelson - has inscribed the verso of the flyleaves of both volumes: 'Richard Crozier R.N. H.M.S. Ariadne from The Hon.ble Mrs Hood. Feb.ry 1826.' She appears to have rubbed out the name of an earlier vessel in place of HMS Ariadne - presumably Crozier had recently changed ship. Tipped in opposite the inscription to volume I is a scrap of paper with 'Robert' written on it and below, the explanation: 'This was written by Robert Southey to try his pen before writing his signature 1834'. Below, in pencil, a much later note: 'Bought in a Bridport bookshop' - possibly referring to this scrap of paper or perhaps the whole volume. A couple of brown spots to prelims; a hole to the first endpaper after the final page of text in vol I, otherwise near fine copies. This is the 'New Edition': Vol I has the portrait of Nelson before the text; Vol II has the leaf of facsimile signatures by Nelson opposite the title page. Charlotte Hood, 3rd Duchess of Bronte (1787-1873) was the daughter of Horatio Nelson's older brother, William Nelson. She married Samuel Hood, 2nd Earl Bridport, politician and peer. The book's recipient, Richard Crozier (1803-1880), was only a lieutenant when these volumes were presented to him - the connection between Lady Hood and the young naval officer is unknown. Southey's life of Nelson shaped the view of England's naval hero for a generation. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item
Seller: Christian White Rare Books Ltd, Ilkley, YORKS, United Kingdom