leech john illustr (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover in Good-plus condition, small 8vo, pages: 425,6 ads, Brown cloth with elaborate bline-stamped botanical border, gold decoration on top board, spine titles and decoration in gold, yellow end-papers, frontis and 5 hand-colored illustrations by Leech (as called for) with tissues (note: plates are at different locations from what is listed on the List of Illustrations page, which is not uncommon with this title). Early printing with no "A" on copyright page. Moderate wear, tips frayed, spine ends worn, contents lightly soiled and tanned. Bookseller accession no.: 16702.

Zustand: Very Good. Hbk, 667pp, originally published in 1843, this edition limited to 1050 numbered copies issued for America of which this is number 51, color frontis + 16 full-page color plates and many b+w illustrns in the text, no dj as issued, very good, beveled red cloth boards, slightly faded at the spine, gilt spine titles on a black label, now in custom acetate jacket, internally a fine, clean, tight and unmarked text, becoming harder to find.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Hbk 423pp no dj as issued blue cloth with gilt and colored decoration lightly rubbed top and tail of spine otherwise crisp and clean and now in custom acetate jacket illustr John Leech in color (frontis and ornament on title page) and b+w engravings throughout an exceptionally bright clean tight unmarked copy almost as new.

Original publisher's cream cloth spine, light-blue paper-covered boards, title on label spine, facsimile [1858], thick 8vo: tipped-in coloured frontispiece, illustration frontispiece, xvi, 526pp., 12 other tipped-in coloured plates, 69 text-illustrations, lists illustrations, table of contents. Spare title label in rear. Untrimmed. Fine copy.

Zustand: near fine. Hbk facsimile of the 1838 Bradbury and Evans edition, Volume 1: 265pp; Volume 2: 266-557pp, of an edition of 950 copies these are number 229, royal 8vo, rough-cut edges, illustr 69 full-page b+w engravings, no djs as issued, red cloth boards with paper-spine labels, gilt top foredges, slight fading to the spines and a small patch of lifting to the cloth of Volume 2, but otherwise clean, bright and sharp, now in custom acetate jackets, appears unread and an excellent clean tight unmarked and very handsome set, almost as new.

Zustand: as new. hbk 450pp illustr 13 full-page colored engravings with tissue-guards and b+w steel engravings throughout ÒPrinted for Subscribers from the plates of the Original [1852] EditionÓ with ÒSubscription Edition" stamped on base of spine (does not include Dedication to the Right Honourable Earl Elcho) fine embossed and gilt-decorated beveled red cloth boards with only light rubbing to extremities and some wrinkling to the lower edge now in custom acetate jacket otherwise an exceptionally fine clean tight unmarked copy almost as new.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 8vo (9½" tall). Superb full red crushed morocco, by TOUT. Gilt raised bands and pallets, fine gilt tooling to panels. Boards framed with gilt floral corner tool. Gilt doublures with floral patterned endpapers. Top edge gilt. Slightly foxed. Armorial bookplate. Original issues of Bentley's Magazine. Bound with special title page, contents and a preface dated 1889 by the collector John Waugh. Autograph letter in black ink bound in, dated 6 March 1863, 2 pages. An exceptional deluxe binding by TOUT binders, with an autograph letter by the illustrator. Leech's letter is to Morgan Dormer mentioning oil sketches, hunting, with a small rebus sketch appearently meaning nobody (legs, no body). Extensively illustrated by Leech with fine engraved plates. Uniformly bound with our other selections from Bentley's Miscellany. 0.0. Book.