e j detmold illus (21 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. 2001. 4th Printing. 239 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. White cloth with decorations and slipcase. Colour illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Boards have light edgewear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor markings to panels.

Hardcover. Condizione: very good(+). Quarto in blue cloth with gilt titles and ornament; ix, 323 pages; 8 color plates, incl. frontis.; 23 cm. Nice coy. Lovely color plates. Birds, Ornithology, Natural History, Nature Writing. A very good(+) copy with a tight binding and clean text block, with minor weathering to exterior. Please see photos. First US edition. Date of 1920 stated on copyright page.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. In slipcase- shows shelf wear.

Condizione: Very Good. First FS Edition. VG : in very good condition with rubbed gold slipcase. 260mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). viii, 239pp + plates. Twelve colour plates. Heavy book - extra shipping needed for overseas. White hardback cloth cover with gilt picture and title.

1st ed, 1st repr. 120p, illus. Original cloth, a little worn at corners and spine ends. Gift inscription to front endpaper.

Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. 213 pp. Illustrated with tipped-in color plates by Edward J. Detmold. Folio, publisher's pale green gilt cloth, t.e.g. Some light use at the extremities of the binding; but clean, tight and sound.

First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original grey pictorial cloth embossed in gilt; ix,[1],274pp.; color frontispiece & 7 plates. Boards a bit dust-soiled, extremities rubbed with small losses at corners, spine toned; contents about fine. Very Good overall. "This book is more than a mere reprint of Birds in a Village published in 1893. The first portion of the old book has been mostly re-written with some fresh matter added; and for the concluding portion of it, entirely new matter has been substituted" (WILSON 35).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Cloth spine fraying at ends. Card boards worn at edges. Tipped in pates mostly in very good condition. Occasional foxing. Binding loosening, but sound.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 2nd Edition. 1936, 4th printing of the 'new' edition. Thick Quarto. 271pp. Illustrated with the tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, decorative gilt titles. A little marked and some light rubbing. In the printed dust jacket, some edge and surface wear. Foxing to text-block, and sporadic mild foxing and spotting internally. Overall a 'Good+' copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Illus. with 12 cold. plates, incl. frontis. 8vo. library binding. EX-LIB. copy. Occasional library markings throughout, generally good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Quarto hardcovber in paper covered boards lettered in gilt and with round tipped on color illustration of a fawn, over white cloth spine also lettered in gilt. 104 pp. With eeven full page plates featuring tipped on color image of each animal features, surrounded by gilt border. A tight example, some staining to the lower right corener of the front board, smaller stain top right corner; some light discoloration to the rear board. Closed slice to the spine strip. Interior clean and plates bright. Some shelf wear to the edges.

Condizione: Good. 120, 19 col plates. . HB. 4to (280x233mm), orig. cloth spine, paper covered boards, slightly marked, circular pictorial onlay to front board. Endpapers browned and lightly foxed. Small contemporary gift inscription to endpaper. Good. Reprint (originally published 1912). A charming book on the chicks and juveniles of various birds, with attractive mounted plates by Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957), a prolific British illustrator who did extensive work in watercolour and etchings for natural history works. Descriptions by Mrs Thomas Hardy (Florence E. Dugdale) (1879-1937), second wife of novelist Thomas Hardy and author of several children's books.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. E J Detmold (illustratore). Later Printing. 104 pgs Bound in red cloth titled in black, light shelf wear, no writing or foxing. Illustrated with 11 very beautiful and endearing mounted color plates by Detmold. All plates in fine condition. This edition omits the plate depicting the fawn. Size: Thick 4to.

Pictorial Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. E J Detmold (illustratore). First Thus. TEG. 196 pgs. Tan cloth pictorially stamped in black ink, titled in gilt, rubbing to cloth, faint red mark to upper cover, gift inscription, foxing at beginning and end of text. Animal stories illustrated with 6 color illustrations by E J Demold. Size: 8vo.

120 pp. With a frontispiece and 18 mounted color plates by E. J. Detmold (complete). Folio, publisher's cloth-backed lettered boards with circular color illustration applied on front panel. The frontispiece was formerly detached, with some shallow wear to the frontispiece fore-edge and a 1/4" chip; gift inscription in ink at the center of the title page; some light use to cloth at extremities; tight and sound.

Condizione: Very Good. vii, 235, 13 mounted col plates, decorative roundels to endpapers and title page. . HB. 4to (280x230mm), orig. dec. cream cloth, lightly bumped to corner of rear board, edges uncut. Light foxing to edges of text block. Very good.British Bee Books, 422. Translated by Alfred Sutro. Re-set illustrated edition, first published October, 1911, and reprinted June, 1912. Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) a Belgian playwright and poet was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911, and was also a keen beekeeper. First published in 1901, The Life of the Bee combines detailed observations of bee behaviour with philosophical reflections. This illustrated edition features the artwork of Edward Julius Detmold (1883-1957), celebrated for blending scientific accuracy with artistic beauty. The attractive decorative buckram binding is also designed by Detmold.British Bee Books, 422.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Henry Frowde & Stoughton, (n.d., but c. 1912). First edition (pp. 120). Large quarto (29 cm) in pictorial paper over boards, nineteen fine colour plates depicting baby birds laid down on heavy card. Florence Dugdale (1879- 1837) was Thomas Hardy's second wife; Hardy was a contributor to this her first book. Covers worn, plates near Fine.

First edition, pairing Detmold's botanical illustrations with Maeterlinck's nature essays. "Detmold's finest plates are those produced for The Fables of Aesop (1909), The Life of the Bee (1911), and Hours of Gladness (1912), the latter with texts after Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian poet, naturalist and mystic. A painting of chrysanthemums, contained in Hours of Gladness, is a glorious acknowledgement of the artist's debt to William Morris and Burne Jones" (Larkin, p. 10). David Larkin, The Fantastic Creatures of Edward Julius Detmold, 1976. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 19 similar plates. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, gilt vignette to spine, covers decorated with floral illustrations in black, yellow and blue, author's monogram to pastedowns, edges untrimmed, some pages unopened. Cloth a little soiled, some light foxing to endpapers. A very good copy.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. E J Detmold (illustratore). First Edition American Issue. No date, circa 1912. Beige boards with cloth spine, full color circular pastedown, light shelf wear, mild darkening to bottom of board, spotting and discoloration to endpapers, a few fox spots to prelims, all color plates fine; the rare dust jacket is present though repaired, worn and missing pieces at spine ends and bottom of front panel. A book about 19 different baby birds, each description paired with a full page color plate mounted on wove paper. Size: Thick 4to.

First Detmold edition of the Nobel laureate's 1901 classic. Quarto. With 13 mounted colour plates. With publisher's promotional bookmark loosely inserted. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, rear cover and pastedowns with bee roundel in gilt and black, edges uncut. Vellum soiled, spine toned and a little cocked, extremities rubbed and gently bumped, contents clean and bright: a very good copy.

First Detmold edition, signed limited issue, number 32 of 750 copies signed by the artist. The texts are taken from translated versions by Sir Roger L'Estrange and Rev. G. F. Townsend. Contemporary reviews recognized the fine work of the artist coupled with a high standard of book production. The Graphic stated that "the drawings of the animals are remarkably lifelike, notably the picture of the monkeys and their mother. The book. looks very handsome". The Tatler noted that "Detmold has illustrated this beautiful volume, and his pictures are exquisite in their delicacy, in their subdued colouring, and in their wonderful variety and charm". The Graphic, 8 January 1910, p. 34; The Tatler, 18 November 1912, p. 594A. Quarto. Illustrated with 25 mounted colour plates by Edward Detmold. Original beige cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with lettering and pictorial decoration in gilt, top edge gilt. Housed in a custom parchment slipcase. Head and foot of spine very slightly bumped, spine slightly toned, some browning to free endpapers: a near-fine copy.