george ford illus (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Printing, November 1968. Previous owner's name written inside front cover. Book has faint wear to cover corners. Light sunfading to spine. Light toning to top outside page block. Otherwise, pages are clean and crisp. Binding is strong and boards are sturdy. Dust jacket has faint wear to corners. 0.5 inch rips to top front and back. Faint length-long crease to spine. Faint rubbing along some edges. Otherwise, jacket is intact. No other major wear or markings. All text and imagery bold and bright. Now in protective mylar cover. Photos upon request.

Decorated Cloth. Thomas Seccombe (Illus.) / Ford Madox Brown (illustrator). 1st edition thus. 1st ed thus, octavo, cloth boards, fountain design (with flowers, birds, butterflies) stamped in gilt, silver and black upper board. gilt lettering and publisher's device to spine, all edges gilt, frontis portrait (bust in circular design), single title page, b&w plates, text illustrations and decorations, all page prdered in red, pp xx 604. N.d. (1881). Light rubbing to head and foot of spine. The second free endpaper has a gift insciption and a second short inscription dated 1892. The tissue plate to the frontis is foxed, otherwise all is generally very clean. Binding firm. Very good condition. An attractive and unusual edition of Lord Byron's work, introduced by the poet William Rossetti. This printing matches one in The British Library, which is catalogued as "Illustrated by Thomas Seccombe [or rather, by Ford Madox Brown]". (It is not clear why Ford Madox Brown would be using the name of another artist as a pseudonym.) This edition also matches the description in The British Library: "Without the additional titlepage and the frontispiece, the latter being replaced by a portrait. With different illustrations from the [1880] edition, that facing p. 410 signed: "M. W. Ridley.".