Edward robert anon (2 résultats)

Half-Leather. Etat : Very Good. 3 works in 1 volume, 1793/1793/1796, printed by T Colvill / T Colvill / R Morison , 83 [1]: 43 [1]: 98 [2] pp, later half morocco, plain boards (rubbed), last work has a folding table at the end, the first work is state A (last leaf with advert and errata to verso) but lacks plates and map called for by ESTC (my state B copy also has no plates or map - see my book number 9132), small hole in B2 of the second work with the loss of2 letters, some light browning (heavier in the third work), 8vo (217x134mm), ESTC T64556/122447/180007 (showing only 3 copies of the last work worldwide - all in the UK). …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 8vo. From Grant & Co's Xmas Number, London:, 1881 Presumed first edition. 104pp, plus 4 tinted plates, with advertisements on the backs. Each chapter is referred to as a 'shock.' Interesting grotesque decorative title-piece to first page. Contents very clean. Octavo, 8.25" x 5.25", in recent brown buckram binding with gilt spine title. The title refers to a death machine which runs on electricity and seems to be a German invention which is deadly if you press the wrong switch, so horror elements possibly even fantasy elements, electric current are mentioned. One of the illustrations shows the small rectangular machine on a table by a window being worked by the character Mary in a smart bonnet ".Mary began to turn what he, and she now, knew to be the screw of death!" Rare. Only one copy found at WorldCat (OCLC) the worldÕs largest library catalogue- at UCLA, who reveal the author as Francillon. Very good indeed. …