A francis steuart editor (9 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Dark blue hard covers with decorative gold borders in fine condition. Navy blue leather spine with raised bands and gold lettering and designs which are bright. Gold Gilt page ends have very light discoloration on the upper edges. Navy blue satin bookmark is in fine condition. Previous owners book plate is pasted to the inside front cover. Text is clean and unmarked. Hinges are. This volume has been privately printed for the members of The Notable Trials Library. Includes a introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-lib unless stated.…

Steuart, A. Francis, Editor. Trial of Mary Queen of Scots. London: William Hodge and Company, [1951]. Reprint. [Birmingham: The Notable Trials Library, 1989]. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. 206 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $20. * Notable Trials reprint, with an introduction by noted legal scholar Alan M. Dershowitz, of the legal history of the 1586 state trial of Mary, Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay Castle. It covers her alleged complicity in the Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, the complex maneuverings of English prosecutors, her self-conducted defense without counsel, and accounts of her subsequent execution.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Letters to Sir Archibald Steuart Denham by an unknown Whig. Inscribed by C.E.S. Chambers on the ffep, "Ms. Pace, with Compliments of C.E.S. Chambers. Christmas, 1912." With an additional note in the same hand laid in: "Ms. Pace, St. John's Episcopal Church, Edin. from C.E.S. Chambers, Edin." Plain red cloth boards with paper label affixed to spine. Gilt top edge. Deckle edges. Hand laid paper with generous margins. Boards just bowed. Corners curled. Light soiling around edges of boards and to spine, and also to edges of paper - does not impact the text block, which is clean and bright, with some light foxing only on the first and last few pages. Printed by T. and A. Constable. 157 pp. (shelf 021). Signed by C.E.S. Chambers. …

Octavo, 206pp, illustrated, original red cloth cloth, prev owner name stamps on endpapers and under textblock, b&w portrait of Queen Mary laid in on front pastedown, blurb laid in on flyleaf, a very good copy. In the series: NOTABLE BRITISH TRIALS.

Hardback. Etat : VG-. No DW. 1st Edition. Green publisher's cloth, lettered in gold. Endpapers HEAVILY spotted. Some spotting mostly to early and late leaves and text edges. Else Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Cloth. Etat : Good/Very Good. Internally very good subject to foxing/marking to the endpapers, binding firm, cover reasonably bright with a small mark to the front panel and slight fading to the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Steuart, A. Francis, Editor. Trial of Mary Queen of Scots. London: William Hodge and Company, [1951]. Reprint. [Birmingham: The Notable Trials Library, 1989]. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. 206 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $40.…

First Edition. Trial of the rival of Queen Elizabeth. Signature of Sheriff Clerk & Commissary Clerk, Alexander Robertson of Nairn to the front endpaper. A little foxing to early pages otherwise a VG copy.

1923. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 184pp. Illustrations, chronology. A previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Trial of Mary--Queen of Scots. Publisher series: Notable British Trials. (Law).