history university cambridge volume iii de searby peter (3 résultats)

Original Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. All four volumes in this History of the University of Cambridge which were published by Cambridge University Press over the period from 1988 to 2004. Each volume has the bookplate of Anthony Edwards, Life Fellow of Gonville & Caius College and retired Professor of Biometry at the University of Cambridge. These books were part of his collection of Cambridge books which was a reflection of his keen and active interest in the governance of the Collegiate University. Volume I (1988) has a few tiny nicks to the edges of the jacket but is otherwise clean and unmarked. Volume II has a little browning to the page edges and the jacket has a small scratch to the front panel and a small brown mark near the base of the spine. It has also been signed and dated in the year of publication (2004) with a dedication to Anthony Edwards by Christopher Brooke who wrote a contribution for this volume as well as being the general editor for the whole series. Volume III (19970 has a little dark marking to the bottom corners of the page edges and the jacket has thin two inch long dark mark running up from the bottom edge of the front panel. Volume IV (1993) is signed by the author, Christopher Brooke. It has a little dark marking to the bottom corners of the pages. The jacket has a small nick at the base of the spine, a dent to the rear panel and a little rubbing to the top corners. Heavy item due to the 4 volumes so there will be an additional postage charge for overseas orders. Signed by Author(s).

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Page-edge soil. Bookplate to title-page. VG., dus Textual illustrations. 22x15cm, xviii,797 pp. Contents: Townscape and university: topographical change; The university: its constitution, personnel, and tasks; Colleges: buldings, masters, and fellows; Colleges: tutors, bursars, and money; methematics, law, and medicine; Sciencee and other studies; Religion in the university: its rituals and significance; The Orthodox and Latitudinarian traditions, 1700-1800; Cambridge religion: the mid-Victorian years; The university as a political institution, 1750-1815; The background to university reform, 1830-1850; The graham Commission and its aftermath; The undergraduate experience, I: Philip Yorke and the Wordsworths; The undergraduate experience, II: Charles Astor Bristed and William Everett; The undergraduate experience, III: William Thompson; Games for gownsmen: walking, athletics, boating, and ball games; Leisure for town and gown: music, debating, and drama. Minor rubbing. Page-edge soil. Bookplate to title-page. VG., dus.

Etat : Near Fine. Four volumes, reprints, 8vo., pp.xxi,399;xxii,613;xviii,797;xxiii,652, blue cloth, gilt; ex libris D.E. Luscombe, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fresh and near-fine set, in near-fine unclipped dust-jackets, with small closed tear to lower margin of jacket to Volume II.