Childs john lewis editor (2 risultati)

Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto: xv, [3], 476 pp. with a tipped-in frontispiece and 1 full-page plate, both chromolithographs, as well as 13 full-page plates, page ornaments, and illuminated initials, all wood engravings. In the publisher's red diagonal fine-ribbed cloth binding, with beveled boards; white, silver, and black-stamped ruled and ornamental borders, around a full-cover vignette of a great house garden with framing vine-covered branches and spider's web, and decorative titling on the front panel; white and silver-stamped ruled bands, white, silver, and black-stamped ornamental bands and devices, and decorative titling on the spine; and blind-stamped ruled and ornamental borders with ornamental corners, and a central ornamental device on the rear panel. Typical light toning to the contents, with some mild creasing to the rear flyleaf and a partially scuffed out inscription to the front pastedown. The boards are fresh and bright, with some very light fading along the spine. Better than very good. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin.…

1/2 Morocco. Condizione: Fine. Second series of the Journal published by Childs. Vol. I, Nos. 1,2,3,4 (with index) 1905 and Vol. II, Nos. 1,3,2,4 1906, both entitled 'A Magazine of North American Ornithology', subsequent vols. called 'Bulletin of the Childs Museum of North American Ornithology'. Vol III, 1907, Vol. IV, 1908, Vol. V. 1909, Vol. VI. 1910, Vol. VII, 1913 (limited to 100 copies, for years 1911, 1912 and 1913). Recent 1/.2 morocco, gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, originally issued in parts, all wrappers bound in at rear, each showing the contents of that issue, together with advertisements, 2 col. plates of eggs for each issue of Vol. I, 1 col. plate for each issue of Vol. II, 1 col. plate for Vol. III (in all 13 plates), plus 2 hand-coloured plates tipped-in with tissue guards in Vol. VII, b. w. photographic text illus.throughout. Articles on nesting, collecting, passenger pigeon, ivory billed woodpecker, full details of the ornithological collection in the Museum, including all the mounted birds, eggs and nests. This publication was printed in small numbers and as a consequence is very rare. Size: 4to.…