Ernest Rhys Everyman's Library

Rhys, Ernest, (Ed.) Rhys, Ernest: Caxton-Belloc. - A Century of English Essays. Dent & Sons, 1959

London, Dent & Sons, 1959. Orig.-Leinen mit Orig.-Umschlag. 12 u. 484 S. = Everyman's Library No. 653 Essays. - Name a.V.; Everyman's Library

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Bartholomew, J.G. With Ernest Rhys, Editor (Everyman's Library): A Literary & Historical Atlas of Europe, London & New York J.M. Dent & Sons, E.P. Dutton & Co., Everyman's Library ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
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xiv. 253 pgs. Very Good condition burgundy-purple cloth hardcover, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Spine cloth faded, with rubbed corners. SFading to cloth along edges of rear board. Binding tight, illustrated maps on endpapers. Not dated or numbered, with a gift inscription on the front blank from mother to son dated Jan. 5, 1912. An information-packed little book covering the geographic, historical and literary development of Europe, the changes through the Middle Ages, the Wellington and Napoleonic times, the Franco-Prussian War, maps covering the great battles of the world, maps relating to English literature, great monasteries and religious houses, industries, agricultural districts, railroads, outline maps representing Medieval and Revolutionary Paris, London as it was rebuilt after the Fire and up to the end of the eighteenth century. A small scale map of the legendary Arthurian regions appears for the first time in an atlas here. Also included is "A Brief Survey of the English Coinage from the earliest Times to the Present Day" and "A Gazetteer of Towns and Places in Europe Having a Literary and Historic Interest". Sections: Introduction, Coloured Maps [about 56, from 1570 Typus Orbus Terrarium of Ortelius to the Density of Population 1901), A Brief Survey of the English Coinage by Bernard Roth, Line Maps: Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World (from the Battle of Marathon 490 B.C. to the Battle of Waterloo 1815), Famous British Battles (12 maps from the Battle of Bannockburn 1314 to The Battle of trafalgar 1805), Maps Illustrating the districts Connected with Famous Books and Their Authors (19 including Canterbury Pilgrims, lands of Burns, Scott, Ivanhoe, Pepys, Arthurian Legends, Lake District of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Ruskin, De Quincey etc, Dickens, Balzac, Eliot, Irving, Dumas Motley's Netherlands and Belgium, The Cloister and the Hearth, monasteries of England and Wales, Borrow's Lavengro, Westward Ho voyages of Amyas Leigh, Paris at the time of the Revolution and Medieval Paris; A Gazetteer of Towns and Places in Europe Having a Literary or Historic Interest; extensive Index. #2386 Not Dated, NAPS Cloth Hardcover 16mo - 4.25 By 6.75 Inches; Not Dated, NAPS

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Rhys, Ernest ( Editor and Selection ): The Growth of Political Liberty: a Source Book of English History ( # 745 of Everyman's Library ) J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co.inc. 1921 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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331 pages, very good interior, red cloth bound cover with golden gilt on spine, rather strong very good copy overall. Hard Cover 48mo - over 3" - 4"

[SW: " POLITICS POLITICAL LIBERTY GROWTH ENGLISH HISTORY SERIES EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY " I. TITLE II. PHYS, ERNEST III. SERIES EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY]

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Ernest Rhys, Ed., Vida D. Scudder, Rev. James Ingram: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [Everyman's Library No. 624] and The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation by the Venerable Bede. [Everyman's Library No.479] (Both Volumes). London J.M. Dent & Company 1923 ; fester Einband / hard cover
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viii.301 pgs. [No.624, 1923 printing] and xxxiv.370pgs. [No. 479, 1927 printing] Both Very Good condition red cloth hardcovers, very light wear to cloth at corners, gilt lettering and decorations on spines age darkened, matching blue tops to textblocks, decorated endpapers. Very faint foxing to endpapers and to half-title of No. 624, otherwise internally clean, tight, unmarked. Contents of No. 624, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Translator's PReface, Synopsis of Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Additional Readings from the MSS. in the Version by Dr. J.A. Giles, Chronology, Index of the Names of Places, Index of the Names of Persons. Contents of No. 479, The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation: Introduction, Books I-V, The Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert Bishop of Lindisfarne, The Lives of the Holy Abbotts of Weremouth and Jarrow: Benedict, Ceolfrid, Eaterwine, Sigfrid and Huetberht.#2418. Decorated Cloth Hardcover 16mo - 4.25 By 6.75 Inches

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