Essays

NY: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1904. Hardcover. Red cloth/gilt, TEG, rough cut edges. Three volume complete set. Cloth lightly sunned, minor soil, front hinge V2 faintly loose. Sound and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Williams and Norgate, 1863. Hardback. Fair. Second series hardback reprinted chiefly from the Quarterly Reviews, 1863, with no jacket. In overall fair-to-good used condition with some signs of age, handling and storage - maroon cloth boards rubbed to edges and worn to spine head, tail and corners; cloth wrinkled towards lower edges with several marks. Internally clean. Binding… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1889. New and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1889. New and enlarged edition. Hardcover, 8vo. rebound in 3/4 tan leather and marbled boards, all edges marbled. 418pp. Very good. Faint old stain to spine ends, front board, leather corners rubbed. Despite cosmetic wear, contents remain bright and unmarked, in a sound binding.… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts,, 1858. First edition of the renowned philosopher and sociologist's collection of essays, originally published in various journals during the 1850s. These essays attest to Spencer's wide range of knowledge and interests, covering social development ("Progress: its law and cause"), science ("The genesis of science"), and music ("The origin and function of music").… Read more about this item

Williams and Norgate, 1891. Hardcover. Good. 1891. Library Edition. 466 pages. No dust jacket. Vol. II. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains fold-out pages. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Ex-libris and pencil inscription present on front paste-down, with a few small nicks and rub marks along text block… Read more about this item

D. Appleton,, 1864.. hardcover. Used, very good. Very good condition. Small very dark purple hardcover with gold lettering on spine, D. Appleton, copyright 1864, 1883 printing, 418pp + heading outline of all the works in Spencer's "Synthetic Philosophy". Cover has very slight wear, minor wrinkling of about 10% of cloth cover due to brief encounter with… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. Library Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 478, 466, 516 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth publisher bindings with gold embossed titling to spine. Scuffing and bumping to covers of each volume. Each volume has printed yellow endpapers, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, and endpapers that have split at gutter but are still tight… Read more about this item

London: Williams and Norgate. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1878. Hardcover. Previous owner's signatures. A 1 1/2" x 1/2" chip to blank margin of the half-title page. Some foxing. Offsetting to endpapers. Fading to spine and boards. A couple of small 1/4" tears to cloth at head of spine. ; Volume 3 only of three volumes.… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton, 1864. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. Front hinge repaired, Cloth lacking at the top of the crown, a good copy.

Williams and Norgate, 1891. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1891. Library Edition. 478 pages. No dust jacket. Vol. I. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Front free endpaper is missing. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Ex-libris and pencil inscription present on front paste-down, with water drops and a few small nicks along… Read more about this item

Williams and Norgate, 1901. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1901. Library Edition. 528 pages. No dust jacket. Vol. III. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Pencil inscription to front paste-down, with a few small nicks, water drops and rub marks along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good. 1865. Hardcover. 386pp., +ads, brown cloth, gilt printing to spine. Covers are soiled and worn, hinges starting, contents are lightly toned but complete. A Good copy. .

London : Williams and Norgate, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Provenance; from the library of Alfred Cock of the Middle Temple with the owner's armorial bookplate. Physical description; vol.… Read more about this item

D. Appleton, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Inked ownership inside front cover, dated 1879. Spine sunned. Binding tight, pages clean. No DJ. Essays collected from periodical. Contents: Philosophy of Style, Over-Legislation,The Morals of Trade, Personal Beauty, Representative Government, Prison-Ethics, Railway Morals and Railway Policy, Gracefulness, State-Tamperings with Money and Banks, Parliamentary Reform,… Read more about this item

New York: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good. 1864. First US Edition. Hardcover. Covers have fading to the spine, uneven fading to the edges. ; Pages unopened. .

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. About Near Fine. Green boards, rubbed at the edges and corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the front endpaper, contemporary date sold and price inside the front board, clean otherwise.

London: Williams And Norgate, 1901. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Library Edition. Spines Lightly Bumped. Previous Owners Stamp On End Papers. He Invented The Paperclip And Coined The Phrase "Survival Of The Fittest" :)

London: Williams And Norgate, 1901. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Library Edition. Spines Lightly Bumped. Previous Owners Stamp On End Papers. He Invented The Paperclip And Coined The Phrase "Survival Of The Fittest" :)

Williams & Norgate, London, 1868,. Fair. 1868. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, (vi),451,(2)pp, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, blindstamped brown cloth gilt, front hinge broken and board detached, spine backstrip torn with loss of the titles. Fair condition. Vol. 1 only .

New York: D. Appleton & Co.. Good+. 1865. Hardcover. Top of spine chipped; lacks front endpaper. .