Biographical Sketches Being Memorials of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Henry Alford, Mrs. Duncan Stewart Etc by Hare, Augustus J C - 1895

146 Charing Cross Road, London: George Allen, 1895. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Delightful character sketches of these prominent 19th century personages who were personal friends of the English writer, Augustus Hare. First Edition 1895 Retired Library Hardcover Book in Good Condition. Without Jacket, as issued. Illustrated throughout with black and white in-text illustrations, and cith seven plates, each with a protective tissue guard. The plates are full page b/w portrait of all persons about whom a sketch is included --seven in all. Seventeen other illustrations. Quite clean and tight, solid sewn binding. Bound in black full cloth with red stripes around entire book; gilt lettered on spine; library name imprinted in gilt on front panel. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped, scuffed. Black endpapers; paste-down has a library bookplate; free endpaper has upper fourth clipped. Small lib stamp on title page and lower edge, pencilled numbers on back… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: George Allen, 1895. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". Unnamed. A pleasing copy of this charming collection of biographical sketches by the English writer and raconteur Augustus J. C. Hare; signed by the author and presented to Agnes Maxwell-Lyte. A first edition copy. Copiously illustrated throughout with black and white in-text illustrations, and collated complete with seven plates (each with a protective tissue guard). With contemporary author's advertisements to the rear of the text. Featuring the following ink inscription by the author to the front free-endpaper: 'Agnes Maxwell-Lyte from her life long friend the Author Augustus J. C. Hare [signed] Christmas at Holmhurst 1902'. Agnes Maxwell-Lyte was the oldest daughter of Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte; the renowned English historian and archivist who served as Deputy Keeper of the Public Records from 1886 to 1926. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt title to spine. Externally… Read More