rotch benjamin attributed (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition, limited to 250. This being No. 137 of 250 numbered copies, signed by H.C.Millard. Original half linen over blue boards, with paper title labels to spine and front board. Overall a very good hardback book since it is so fine internally, and it is tight and well bound. To the outside, the covers have insignificant marks here and there, plus the spine is dust dulled with wear at the top and base of the spine. pp.viii, 43, 15 (advertisements) ten hand-coloured engravings; A facsimile of the 1815 publication Letters from France: written by a Modern Tourist.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Limited Edition. 8vo. Original half linen over blue boards, decorated spine and cover; pp. [viii], 43, 15 (advertisements) ten hand-colored engravings; A facsimile of the 1815 publication "Letters from France: written by a Modern Tourist", re-using the original copperplates which were then destroyed. A humorous look at life and society in Paris during the brief period Napoleon's was on Elba. 'Who the author was is doubtful; but the writer [Henry Sotheran] has heard his father say that he was one Benjamin Rotch, a Middlesex Magistrate' (from the preface). No. 250 of 250 numbered copies, signed by H.C.Millard, Secy. Front cover stained and soiled, lesser discoloration to back cover, spine toned. Otherwise very good with text block clean and tight. With the bookplate on front pastedown of J.B. Findlay [1904-1973], a noted historian and collector of magic. Findlay had over 6,000 books and pamphlets in his collection and was editor of the Scottish Conjurers Association official magazine, The Thistle.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited Edition, limited to 250. Original half linen over blue boards, with paper title labels to spine and front board. Ten hand coloured engravings and 15 advertisements to the rear. Plates were created from the original copper plates. A nice tight copy, boards a little browned with some fading to spine but overall in very good condition. Contents in fine condition. 22.5 x 15cm.

Leather_bound. Zustand: Very Good. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the publisher. Three quarter black leather lined in gilt and spine lettered and designed in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extra illustrated; ten tinted plates as called for, this volume contains and additional six titnted color plates , five of which represent empire period female costume; an engraving of Ludwig XVIII inserted at the frontispiece (foxing); engraved portraits of Voltaire and Rousseau; engraving of Versailles from Paris Avenue (foxing to plate and facing page). Binding worn about the edges and with a 1/2" chip at head of spine.