Hall mrs s c editor (5 risultati)

New edn. 8vo. Original laminated pictorial boards (Fine). Pp. xxxix + 485, illus with 2 b&w plates (no inscriptions).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. Hardback, gilt titles to spine. Edges gilt. New end papers. 16.5cm x 10cm. viii, 229pp, [3]. Complete with presentation plate, with gift message written inside, frontis, title vignette, 8 full-page plates and vignette tailpiece. Binding slightly marked and worn to extremities. Minor spotting. A decent copy. (bs45).…

Engraved "Presentation Plate" at front (not inscribed), engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, engraved title vignette and 9 engraved plates with tissue-guards & engraved tail-piece.8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches), pp.viii:224:[4, advertisements], original ornately and decoratively embossed calf, all edges gilt. Contemporary signature of Henrietta Barrow on front pastedown. Much of front free endpaper excised, rear free endpaper removed. Very faint marginal damp mark to blank border of plates. little light wear at headbands. Overall very good.Contributions by Alan Cunningham, James Montgmery, Miss Landon, Mrs Hofland, Anna Seward, Mrs. Opie, & others.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Covers have scraping to the rear edges and general light corner and light edge wear. Covers are lightly rubbed, including the decoration. Damp staining to lower outer corners of plates and adjacent pages. Plates have varying amounts of foxing, thorough on some. Pages have varying amounts of browning. Name ink stamped on many pages, including all of the plates. Each inner hinge has a split. ; ".from paintings, by various artists, after sketches by W. Perring." Green leather covers with gilt decoration.…

London : S. W. Partridge, [1868]. First edition. Large octavo (210 x 170 mm), publisher's blind-blocked green cloth (corners bumped), upper board with chromolithographic illustration inlaid within gilt border (very good), spine decorated in gilt (short split to cloth at tail), pastedowns and endpapers with publisher's advertisements, original owner's name in ink to verso of front endpaper, colour frontispiece and title page, pp. vi, 168, [8 publisher's advertisements]; with numerous full-page plates and text illustrations by Harrison Weir (fknown as "The Father of the Cat Fancy"); occasional handling marks at the margins, but generally an excellent copy. First edition of this beautiful animal book for children: although stories about cats and dogs predominate, there are also anecdotes about horses, chickens, elephants, bears, birds, sheep, mice, rats and other creatures.…