G e mitton text (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Blackie & Son Limited, London. Undated. First edition, first impression. Beige boards. Dark green lettering to spine and to upper board. Frontispiece. Illustrated with a further 11 full page colour reproductions of original water colour paintings by E.W. Haslehust. Dustjacket. Dustjacket price clipped. Spine, edges of boards, pastedowns and endpapers lightly tanned. Bookseller's bookplate to bottom edge of front pastedown. Some light foxing throughout. Head of spine of dustjacket chipped. 7 cm meandering closed tear to head of spine of dustjacket. 8.5 cm meandering closed tear to top edge of rear panel of dustjacket. Dustjacket lightly tanned and lightly soiled. A good copy in a good dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blackie and Son Limited, London,1910. Hardcover. First edition, first impression. Beige boards. Dark green titles to spine and to upper board. Inset illustration pasted to upper board. Colour frontispiece. Illustrated with a further 11 full page colour reproductions of original water colour paintings by Ernest Haslehurst. Upper hinge cracked. Lower hinge partially cracked. Boards mottled. Front free and rear free endpapers tanned. Foxing throughout. Overall, the book is in a fair condition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. as pictured First edition Very good condition hard cover, only flaws, one plate taped in, list of plates loose, but all present. last plate damp line to top page edge. gently read clean pages , rear page very foxed, and may have had a hinge crack glued Decorated grey Cloth. . xii, 248 pp+ 2 gilt top edge, index, . 55 full page illustrations in color with captions to tissues together with 20 chapter headings in color.All present no map.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean hardback tightly bound in decorated grey cloth with gilt titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners and spine ends, endpapers tanned, page edges foxed, interesting bookplate on front pastedown otherwise no inscriptions. 248 pages, illustrations on plates with tissue guards + vignettes at each chapter, foldout map, index, 2 pages of publisher's adverts. …

The Gresham Publishing Company. Hardback. Book - Good, one plate loose, title page foxed.

First edition with 55 colour-plate illustrations, captioned on the tissue guards and 20 colour printed chapter headings, pull-out map of the Thames. 8vo., Original grey-blue cloth with decorative boards printed in green, white and light blue, lettered in gilt with a gilt top edge. Spine slightly darkened, otherwise a very good copy. This volume is unusual in that this was the first time such illustrations had appeared as chapter headings on the same page as the text matter. A laborious process, in that the paper had to first be coated (as the three colour process was only successful on art paper), the experiment was not repeated. A previous text written by Menpes' daughter, Dorothy, was rejected for being of an 'inadequate quality'. 'A &C Black's Twenty Shilling series of colour plate books, published from 1901 onwards, brought the world into the home at a time when travel, especially overseas, was much more difficult than it is today. For the first time books containing large numbers of colour plates - up to 100 per volume - were made available to the public at an affordable price.' (Inman).…