John buckland wright illus (8 Ergebnisse)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, burgundy buckram boards, black lettering & decoration to spine, unpaginated prelims + 252pp, illus, VG (moderate fading & rubbing/fraying to spine & board edges/extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, occasional light to moderate cracking to gutters).…

Zustand: Good. Some heavy foxing on outer edge of pages and first and last few pages in book. Content is fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. One of 500 copies. Octavo. 40pp. Illustrated with five copperplate engravings by John Buckland Wright, plus an elaborate title-page spread. Bound half blue cloth, half yellow over boards with bull motif gilt-stamped to upper cover and gilt titling to spine. Corners lightly bumped, mild sunning to spine, motes of soiling to covers, else very good with a bright, crisp interior. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. One of 360 copies. Tall quarto. 80pp. Illustrated by John Buckland Wright with eight aquatints, printed from the copper plates. A lush example of Buckland Wright's style, with particularly impressive shading and detail not found in other instances of his work. Bound in green half-cloth over orange boards, with gilt tooling to upper cover. Scant rubs, else fine and in the original glassine wrapper. T.e.g.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. One of 500 copies. Octavo. (48)pp. Illustrated with twelve full-page and two smaller engravings in copper by Buckland Wright. "Musaeus, writing in the fifth century A.D., was almost the last of the classical Greek poets, and his version of the age-old legend is the best," states the Press's bibliography. Buckland Wright's illustrations have a timeless beauty, or as the bibliography describes them "chastely amorous;" his copper engravings depicting nymphs and satyrs in erotic scenes have long been compared to illustrations by ancient Greek artists. Reed notes, "One is tempted to regard him as the last Greek artist to be born after the Greeks." Translated by F. L. Lucas. Bound in half red cloth, half yellow over boards with facing motifs stamped in gilt and red to upper cover and gilt titling to spine. Spine sunned, mild rubs to extremities, else very good. Bookplate for former owner to front pastedown.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Small quarto. 349pp. Illustrated with seventeen wood-engravings by John Buckland Wright. In a special binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of full red morocco with large inlaid panels of gilt-stamped purple morocco. Spine in six compartments with title and cockerel motif gilt-stamped. Gilt rules to head and tail of spine, edges, and turn-ins. Minor rubs to raised bands and corners, spine a tad darkened, else near fine in slipcase, this worn as expected. One of 100 deluxe copies with an extra engraving and specially bound.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The sole UK printing of this illustrated edition published by the Golden Cockerel Press, UK in 1952. Number '9' of 60 special copies (overall edition limited to 360 copies). The BOOK is in near Fine condition, bound in full grey-green/pink morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, as issued. With an extra suite of the 8 aquatint plates loosely tucked into an envelope at the rear, including one extra (9 in total), which was not printed in the book. Signed at the colophon by both Buckland Wright and the author. Very light toning to the morocco spine and to the outer edges of the endpapers, otherwise near fine internally and externally. All tissue guards present and a small neat previous owner's bookplate to the upper front pastedown. Housed in the publisher's original cloth slipcase, which has minor splits and some slight loss to the cloth at corners. A very handsome production and scarce as the special edition. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. The sole UK printing of this illustrated edition published by Golden Cockerel Press, London in 1947. Number '383' of 500 copies issued on Arnold's hand-made paper with the Golden Cockerel Press watermark, of which one hundred copies were specially bound in vellum at Sangorski and Sutcliffe. The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition. The vellum spine with gilt titling has a few lights spots. The cloth boards with gilt decoration are clean. The binding is tight. Top edge gilt. Free from inscriptions. Some light sporadic toning to the page edges in places, more so to pages 12-15, 90-91 and 132-133, and the rest mild - all copies appear to have been affected with this to some degree, and it does not particularly detract. Profusely illustrated throughout with engravings by John Buckland-Wright. The book is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. One of the highlight productions from the Golden Cockerel Press. Increasingly scarce. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.…