Braybrooke rev m (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. postage reduced within the UK.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. Four volumes complete. Number 190 of 1,000 numbered sets. No date given: circa 1910. Light wear to the red cloth bindings. Pages tight and clean with no marks. No broken hinges. Paper spine title labels. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. A little bit of sunning to the spines.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. All photos are actual books, not stock photos. These books are in very good condition with light wear and creasing to the corners and edges of the spine. Volume 2 has water spot discoloration on the back cover. The bindings are tight and the pages clean but yellowed. This is a De Luxe Numbered set 403. This is complete with 4 volumes.…

Leather. Condizione: Very Good. An attractive half-morocco prize binding of Pepys' diaries, complete in two volumes and containing the drawings of Benton Fletcher. This edition was originally published in 1924. This is the first reprint. Complete in two volumes. Handsomely bound in half maroon morocco. Prize binding with the gilt emblem of the Stephen Perse Foundation to the front boards. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. Volume I is then followed by eighteen plates, and Volume II contains a further twenty-two. Drawings by Major Benton Fletcher, an artist and travel writer, who is best known for his significant collection of early keyboard instruments. Collated, complete. Spanning the years of 1659 through to 1669, these volumes compile the private writings of influential 17th-century figure Samuel Pepys. An important author, politican and collector in his time, Pepys's diaries are what he is most remembered for today. The detail of the works have cemented them as an invaluable historical source, providing insight into Restoration England and significant events such as the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London. Handsomely bound in half maroon morocco. Prize binding with the gilt emblem of the Stephen Perse Foundation to the front boards. Prize bookplate to each front paste down. Externally, smart with slight shelf wear, resulting in loss of leather to the extremities and more significant cracking along the front joint of Volume I, leaving the front free endpaper a little delicate with a number of tears. Internally, firmly bound. Bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good. Major Benton Fletcher (illustratore). book.…