Jerrold douglas etc (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. X, 400; Viii, 385 Pp. Original Brown Cloth, Gilt, Decorated In Black, Black Endpapers. 1878 Dates On Title Pages. Lightly Used, Gilt Brilliant. Volume 1 Has Short Fray On Rear Spine Edge.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 4th Edition. 400 pages with 50 wood engraved plates by Orrin Smith after Kenny Meadows + an engraved frontis and half title and woodcut illustrations to the preface, in the original green blind stamped cloth with gilt decorated spine, boards a little faded at edges and spine, contents very good except where the top edges have been opened when attached from the printers (as partly unopened) and some closed splits have occurred to several pages and some longish tears on one page, no loss of text. Small octavo no date c1846-50. *The essays on various characters and professions with their PORTRAITS. Inc; the Hangman, The Printers Devil, The Pew Opener, The Street Conjurer, The Beadle, The Undertaker, The Auctioneer (this article by Douglas Jerrold), Captain Rook and Mr Pigeon (by W. M.Thackaray), The Common Informer, The Teetotaler, The Diner Out, The Fashionable Physician, The Postman, The Cockney, The Retired Tradesman, The Theatrical Manager, etc, etc. *A good book for writers and historians who wish to get a brief, humorous and full explanation of 19th century English types & their employments. Kenny Meadows. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. A most unusual volume containing seven different works by various authors, with different printers. These have obviously been gathered together and bound as one. The style suggests a date of circa 1870-1880. The works are: Elbow-Room by Max Adeler, Out of the Hurly-Burly by Max Adeler, The Bab Ballads, The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green - an Oxford Undergrduate, Mrs Caundle's Curtain Lectures by Douglas Jerrold, Hood's Own - or Laughter from Year to Year, and Old Christmas - from the Sketchbook of Washington Irving. Lots of good illustrations. Size about 28 x 22cms. Half leather and marbled boards binding, with gilt rules, decoration and title on spine, in good+.sound conditionText good and tight, with light age-browning here and there. A few minor light marks.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in half brown leather with marbled boards and gilt titles to spine, this 1845 hardcover Volume One of The illuminated Magazine is close VG. 348pp with illuminated title page, Preface, 102 articles and stories, illustrated with engravings by Phiz, Leech and Sargeant among others. Worth a mention is the article "The Last Stage Coachman". This is the first appearance of this item, in which Collins laments the disappearance of the Stage coach and its replacement by the railway. He imagines a meeting with "the last Coachman", who reminises about the demise of the Coaching Inn and the end of a way of life; all at the behest of the souless railway. Light foxin to prelims, and rubbing to board edges. Page 101 has a horizontal tear: this is a closed tear with nothing missing. Page 183 has a creased and chipped fore-edge. Otherwise VG. Phiz, Leech Etc (illustrator).…