frognal (7 risultati)

Paperback VG-. 8vo small, 115, Trade paperback. Light wear.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 80p A4 format, 230+ items, clean copy, dated in pencil June 1996 Language: English.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. An original antique hand coloured view. Mounted and ready to frame . Very good condition . A splendid vintage view - decorative, attractive and somewhat uncommon. Delicate colouring - not contemporary. An impressive view of Frognal, the seat of Vicount Sidney.

Unframed Print. Condizione: Very Good. A double sheet print, image area approx. 28 x 38 cms. A domestic interior with Arts and Crafts elegance and architectural refinement, exemplifying Shaw' residential mastery. The illustrations found in leading architectural journals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as The Builder, Building News, and The Architect are masterpieces of visual craftsmanship. These illustrations capture the elegance, intricacy, and stylistic flair of the period's architecture. Rich in ornamental detail and atmospheric depth, they reflect not only the buildings themselves but the artistic sensibilities and design discourse of their age. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PAGE FROM THE JOURNAL, PRINTED AT THE DATE SHOWN IN THE TITLE, NOT A REPRINT OR COPY. Category: Builder & Building News; Unframed Prints : Old; PRINTS : Buildings & Places. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. An original antique hand-coloured engraving , printed circa 1829. Hand-colouring not contemporary but delicately and expertly executed. Mounted and ready to frame. Mount size approx 10 x 8 ins, 29 x 24 cms. A fine opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative engraving of Frognal - Kent.

12mo, 2 pp. Seventeen lines of text. On lightly aged and creased paper. Attractive arts and crafts letterhead. Sending his 'mosts profound sympathy in the danger which threatens Chelsea'. He will sign 'the paper [.] with the greatest of pleasure', although he anticipates 'very little good as a possible result'. Suggests a time at which the paper can be sent to him. He doubts whether it will be 'any consolation', but 'the London County Council are at this moment allowing the most beautiful suburb in London, namely Frognal, to be ruined by the erection of hideous barracks that they call flats. Their architect says that he can do nothing in the matter.' Besant's signature has a diagonal line through it, apparently in the same ink, and it is not clear whether this is a stylistic flourish, or a cancellation by Besant, possibly on the letter being returned to him with the papers referred to in the letter. Alice Westlake, daughter of Thomas Hare, and advocate of proportional representation, was the wife of the jurist John Westlake (1828-1913; DNB), of River House, Chelsea Embankment.

First edition, 3 vols., 4to (270 x 185 mm), [6], vi, [2], ccxxv, [1], 410, [2]; [4], 535, [3]; [4], 544, [4]pp., with half-titles, ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, 37 engraved plates (without the 'Presentation in the Temple' plate which was not ready at publication and occurs in only a very few copies and the 'Portrait of Los Rios' which Windle & Pippin suggest is an extra-illustration), also without the engraved portrait of Dibdin by Henry Mayer, numerous woodcuts engraved vignettes, several printed in red or blue, some mounted, some light spotting and offsetting as usual, marbled endpapers, contemporary full blue-green morocco, decorated in gilt with interlacing geometrical design on the covers, richly tooled gilt morocco doublures, flat spines lettered in gilt direct, all edges gilt, spine slightly faded, corner of lower board of vol. II bumped, some slight edge-wear to bindings otherwise a handsome set. A fine copy of the rare large paper issue of the author's most lavish publication and the high water of Dibdinian Bibliomania. Jackson 40; Windle & Pippin A28.