E p publishing reprint (6 Ergebnisse)

Cloth, 8vo, 21 cm, v-vi, [1], xviii, 276 pp, plates. From the blurb: "George Baxter was born in Lewes in 1804 and undoubtedly he learned much from his father who was a printer, wood engraver and publisher. Baxter became a pioneer of the art of colour printing, and in 1836, after setting up his business in London, applied for a patent of his own elaborate process. This reprint provides some biographical details on Baxter and outlines his career and position in the colour printing hierarchy in England, but it is primarily important as a manual for collectors, cataloguing all the prints ever produced by Baxter. Although the prints are valuable for their numerous and alluring artistic qualities they also have value for the historian, throwing much light upon early Victorian times. During the quarter of a century in which Baxter was actively producing colour prints there were few prominent persons, noteworthy events or memorable places that were not perpetuated for us by his art. Depicted on his plates are King Henry VII; Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort; Jenny Lind; the Emperor Frederick, at the time of his marriage; Napoleon the Third and his beautiful consort; Wellington, whose funeral is excellently presented; Peel; and many another notable man or woman. Baxter was also unsurpassed as a pictorial chronicler of events. There is the coronation of Queen Victoria, scenes connected with the Great Exhibitions in London in 1851, and in New York in 1853, and a number of prints illustrative of the stirring days of early missionary enterprise." Top edge spotted, otherwise Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.…

Cloth, 8vo, xx, 472 pp. From the introduction: ".the present work, which, although professedly only a catalogue of the books in one particular collection, nevertheless, owing to the great richness of the [British] Museum in Topography, is virtually a general catalogue, and by far the most comprehensive hitherto published, of books relating to the history and antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland. Very Good in partly faded dustwrapper.…

Cloth, 8vo, xx, 472 pp. From the introduction: ".the present work, which, although professedly only a catalogue of the books in one particular collection, nevertheless, owing to the great richness of the [British] Museum in Topography, is virtually a general catalogue, and by far the most comprehensive hitherto published, of books relating to the history and antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland. Very Good in sunned dustwrapper.…

Cloth, 8vo, xx, 472 pp. From the introduction: ".the present work, which, although professedly only a catalogue of the books in one particular collection, nevertheless, owing to the great richness of the [British] Museum in Topography, is virtually a general catalogue, and by far the most comprehensive hitherto published, of books relating to the history and antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland. Bookplate of Frank Broomhead on front pastedown endpaper, Very Good in a dustwrapper. which is sunned on the spine and browned on the inside flaps.…

Hardback. Dust Jackets, all three volumes in Very Good condition. They are not inscribed or price clipped. Red cloth boards with titles in gilt lettering to spines. The Dust Jackets are sunned to the spines and the top front edges. Faint foxing to end papers. Contents include - Part 1 Description of eighteen traditional dances collected in country villages. Part 2 Thirty country dances from 'The English dancing Master'. Part 3 - Thirty Fivec Dances Part 4 - Forty Three dances. Part 5 - Contains the Running Set and collected by cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles in kentucky USA was first published in 1918. The general index to parts 1-V1 is included in this volume, together with the corrections and additions to PartV and V1. Part 6 Contains fifty two dances. A bright clean set now in clear protective coverings.…

Variously paginated. Text tables, map & plate. Original black cloth gilt, dustwrapper. 26 cm x 18 cm. Very faint marginal age browning.