samuel croxall sir roger lestrange (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. No Edition Remarks. 364 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Rough-cut pages. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges and free endpapers. Light cracking, creasing and staining to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardback, blue cloth with printed spine label, marks on covers, head, tail and corners rubbed and bumped, former owner's name and blind embossed stamp on front end-paper and name on title-page, tear to fore-edge of page 303 repaired, some light marks throughout. Please contact me for photographs or further information if required.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with black titles on gilt labels, blindstamped decoration on front board and spine, spine darkened, boards rubbed at corners, gift label on front pastedown otherwise no inscriptions. xxviii + 364 pages, frontispiece and illustrations in the text.

Pictorial Boards. Zustand: Near Good. No Jacket. Juvenile Library No. 19, Copyright Edition. 159 Fables + Last Fable, Jupiter and the Herdsman. . Undated Edition, circa 1920s.Presentation label on Endpaper, dated 1934. Paper-Covered Boards illustrated with a the Fox and Grapes on the front, Red Title above. Blue Lettering to spine. Nestle advert on the back. 252 Pages, 260g, 6 7/8" Tall. Small piece of Backstrip missing from top of spine ( about 1") which removes most of the title. 3 very small closed tears down sides of spine.(see photo). Pages slightly age darkened an an occasional spot of foxing or fingermark. No inscriptions apart from the label. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. N.D. [c1900] 8vo, pp,xxxii,364, with 110 original illustrations, gilt titled navy cloth, uncut, foxing to fore-edge, hinges are cracked but tight, light age-toning. Chandos Classics.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Various (illustrator). A richly illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables, featuring 159 of these timeless tales with additional moral applications by Rev. G. F. Townsend and L. Valentine. In the publisher's original red cloth binding, with blind stamp.This edition is notable for containing 159 of Aesop's fables, accompanied by 110 original illustrations.This edition is undated, this copy has been dated using Jisc, from a copy held at The National Trust Libraries.This copy includes fables such as "The Wolf and the Lamb", "The Frog and the Fox", "The Boy and his Mother", "Snake and the Crab", "Wasps in a Honey-pot", "The Fortune Teller", "The Ox and the Frog", "The Wind and the Sun", "The Viper and the File", "The Ant and the Fly", "The Cat and the Cock", among many others. This copy is also notable for including moral applications by the Reverend George Fyler Townsend and L. Valentine.Aesop was a storyteller who is thought to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. He is best known for his collection of fables featuring anthropomorphic animals that illustrate moral lessons of honesty, wisdom and kindness. These fables have become enduring classics, continuing to be shared with generation after generation. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. One or two handling marks to the boards, with a couple of spots of damp staining to rear boards. Rubbing and bumping to extremities. Joints strained, rear joint separated about four inches at the centre, and slightly at the extremities, but holding firm. Previous owner's inscription to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if a little age toned. One or two handling marks to fore edge. The odd spot. Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition for age of the book. Hard cover in very good condition, evidence of rubbing, bumping, tanning and spotting across external board. Minor rips on the top and bottom of spine. Internally, front and backboard spine crease is exposed. Slight rubbing bumping on internal front and back boards. Brown and gold spine. Internal pages in very good condition for age of book. Tanning and spotting on pages internally and externally. Handwritten inscription on front page. Black and white illustrations. Includes frontispiece. 364pp. Overall very good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. With applications, morals, etc. by Rev. G. F. Townsend and L. Valentine. No date, circa 1930's. Small Thick Octavo. xxxii, 351pp. Illustrated. Publisher's limp brown leather covers, gilt titles. Minor rubbing to spine. A.E.G. School prize bookplate tipped-in. Otherwise contents clean and bright. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.

Leather. Zustand: Fine. None stated (illustrator). A beautifully bound copy of the fables of Aesop, adorned with charming illustrations throughout, bound by Eric Sweet in crushed quarter morocco and housed in a lovely cloth chemise and uniform slipcase. An illustrated edition. Bound by Eric Sweet, a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art, before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies, later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking, reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style.Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with marbled paper to the boards, endpapers and blanks renewed, with a cloth slipcase and chemise.Illustrated with one hundred and ten monochrome vignettes throughout. Collated, complete.A charming illustrated collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This edition has been translated by Samuel Croxall and Sir Roger L'Estrange. Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with marbled paper to the boards, endpapers and blanks renewed, with a cloth slipcase and chemise. Externally lovely. The slip and chemise are also lovely. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages with only the odd spot to the front and rear couple of pages. Fine. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. None stated (illustrator). A strikingly bound copy of Aesop's fables, with charming illustrations throughout, bound by Eric Sweet with moire cloth panels and a cloth chemise and slipcase. A new edition. Part of the 'Chandos Classics' series.Bound by Eric Sweet, a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art, before moving to London to work as a letteringartist and typographer for advertising agencies, later becoming the head ofBirmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking, reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctivestyle.Illustrated with one hundred and ten monochrome illustrations, including a frontispiece, and an illustrated title page.A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This edition has been translated by Samuel Croxall and Sir Roger L'Estrange, and contains George Fyler Townsend's and L. Valentine's 'new applications, morals, etc'.Bound in cloth with moire cloth panels, endpapers and blanks renewed, with a cloth chemise and slipcase. Bound in cloth with moire cloth panels, endpapers and blanks renewed, with a cloth chemise and slipcase. Externally lovely. The chemise is lovely, and the slip excellent with light damp staining to the head. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with the odd minor spot only. Light owner's stamp to the title page. Fine. book.