edited charles peake (4 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. paperback, xlii,212pp, owner's name on endpaper, edges browning, text clean and tight, corners rubbed, Good condition. ISBN: 0710045085.

Hardcover. vi, [2], 188 p.; front. (port.); 22.5 cm. J. Estlin Carpenter, Unitarian, principal of Manchester College, Oxford, 1844-1927. Good, lt. spotted orig. navy cloth. Obituary pasted to fpd.

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents, with a little light spotting to the top of the text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions. Complete with the spine-faded original dustwrapper which has a small mark to the front panel. Not price clipped (£8.95 to the bottom of the front flap). Peake was commissioned to illustrate Dickens's Bleak House in 1945, but the project was ultimately abandoned. Here his sketches and illustrations for the work are paired with extracts from the text for the first time. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. George Cruikshank, (illustratore). 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODJ ISSUED, 1840, JULY - DECEMBER, 1ST U. S. EDITION, NF-/VG-, AS-IS,NOJACKET, Issues bound together from July through December 1840. Very Good- with Light rub & Wear, Fox, Bound with the original leather binding, spine Replaced in GREEN cloth with the original titles in leather and gilt. 9x6 inches, With a marbled page block. 643 pages. CHIPS & TEARS HARCOVER EDGES, Outer pgs edges marblelized , 9x6 inches, Interior Light wear , wrinkling some pgsFox, profusely illustrated with 13 full page B/W prints by George Cruikshank, who also was illustrating Charles Dickens first edition in the 1840s. And 12 other listed wood engravings, Beautiful Marblelized Endpapers, B/W Illustrations & Woodcuts by Cruikshank, Crowquill, Leech etc, and The Transylvanian Anatomie, by R.B. Peake, first appearance of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Wreck of the Hesperus, profusely illustrated with 13 full page B/W prints by George Cruikshank, who also was illustrating Charles Dickens first edition in the 1840s. And 12 other listed wood engravings, Beautiful Marblelized Endpapers, B/W Illustrations & Woodcuts by Cruikshank, Crowquill, Leech etc , & The Transylvanian Anatomie, a Tale by R.B. Peake, a very early Horror piece on vampires and necromancers & 1st edition first appearance of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Wreck of the Hesperus, a Ballad. THIS IS A REMARKABLE ITEM. Featuring not one, but two incredible Horror pieces. This incredible bound volume also features many other collectable works. Includes Jolly Miller a fragment, Mr. Crocodile, Cobbler Physician by R.B. Peake, Stealing of the Treasure,Black Mousuetaire, Legend of France by Thomas Ingoldsby, DIALOGUE BETWEEN 2 China Jars by Hal Willis, Mr. Chimpanzee disappointed Traveller, Last of the Pigtails, Mr. Hyena Smirke, Duck, Fragment from the AutobiographyVoices of the Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ETC.