henry weyde (6 risultati)

Mounted photograph. Condizione: Good. Van der Weyde, Henry (illustratore). Mounted albumen photograph, ca. 7 x 11 1/2 inches. Stamped in gilt on the mount: "The VanderWeyde Light" and 182 Regent St. W. "VanderWeye" is also blind-stamped in the lower right of the photo. Neatly mended closed tear to right of the man's thighs; light foxing; surface scratches. The dark line at his feet looks like a retouched scratch under the surface. The gentleman stands before a painted studio backdrop of a forest, holding hunting whip and horn. He was probably a follower of hounds on foot. Van der Weyde (1838-1924), a founding member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood, was known for his studio portraits of royalty and prominent men and women in many fields. He pioneered in the use of electric light for portraiture. The Regent Street address dates from 1877.

Victorian Cabinet Card. Condizione: Good. Victorian Cabinet Card. 165 x 105mm. C.1884. Cabinet card entitled 'Mary Anderson as "Galatea"' by Henry Van Der Weyde. Sepia photograph on paper, laid onto card, with photographers details to base of card. Mary Anderson was an American born theatre actress. Henry Van Der Weyde was a Dutch born painter and photographer who was considered a photographic pioneer in the use of electric light in photography. Bumping to corners and moderate marking and scuffing. See images.

First Edition. Single quarto issue in original pictorial wraps. Staple-bound wrappers, 64pp. Mild cover wear and soil, still a well-preserved, easily Very Good copy. Edited by William David Moffat. Photographic cover portrait by W.M. Van der Weyde. The entire issue is devoted to the life and career of O.Henry (pseudonym of William Sidney Porter, 1862-1910). Van Der Weyde's article, "Glimpses of O. Henry Land," is a collection of seventeen photographs, reproduced in sepia halftone, comprising "Day and night scenes in the New York that O.Henry knew - his 'Little Old Bagdad-on-the-Subway." Other contributors to this issue include C. Alphonso Smith (Porter's biographer); George MacAdam (reproducing "The Only Interview O. Henry Ever Gave"); Margaret Porter (his daughter); Arthur B. Maurice, others.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Issued Without DJ. PHOTO BY VAN DER WEYDE (illustratore). 1st Edition. SPINE SLIGHTLY FRAYED, COVER BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER 1/4" CREASE. SPECIAL O. HENRY NUMBER, " MY O. HENRY" BY HIS DAUGHTER. POEM THE CRUCIBLE, ARTICLES ABOUT O.HENRY BY ARTHUR MAURICE, C. ALPHONSO SMITH, GEORGE MACADAM.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover, top edge gilt, deckle page edges. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Contains [x] 86 pages with tissue-guarded frontispiece photogravure steel engraved portrait of Mary Anderson after the original drawing by Henry Van der Weyde, header and tail-pieces. Fraying of the cloth to the spine ends, dusty end papers and in Good sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good+ condition. First Edition. 12 pages, including pages with mounted photographs. Bound in full leather stamped "Stanley" with shield and eagle decoration on the front cover, with wear to the extremities. The spine has been expertly rebacked in full leather to match the original. The hinge of the page containing the Stanley photograph has been repaired almost invisibly, not affecting the photograph or the text. There is minor to moderate foxing scattered throughout. With the exception of the list of persons present, which is affixed to the inside front cover, each page is mounted on thick card stock. There are five photographic portraits of the officers of the Advance Command of the Expedition, each of which is signed by the officer in the top margin above the photograph. The book is additionally signed on the front and rear endpaper by 23 attendees of the banquet event. The text includes the menu of nine courses served on May 30th, 1890 including "Babas a la Stanley" for entrements. It was a lavish event, held in the Portman Rooms, with the Band of the Grenadier Guards played 10 songs. At this event, Stanley was presented with a massive testimonial shield and medallions wrought in fine silver by Elkington & Co. The shield was designed by Henry Solomon Wellcome, who apparently organized this banquet event. Wellcome's new tabloid medicines in the form of "nine beautiful chests replete with every medicament necessary to combat the endemic diseases peculiar to Africa" accompanied the expedition, and there were several pharmaceutical colleagues in attendance at the event. Signed by 1) Max O'Rell pen name of M. Paul Blouet (1848-1903) French author 2) Howard Bronson (1842-1908) American Dramatist 3) Moncure D. Conway (1832-1907) Abolitionist Minister 4) William Holman Hunt(1827-1910) English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 5) J. McNeil Whistler (1834-1903) American artist 6) Frederick Kill Harford (1832-1906) English clergyman, musician, poet and pioneering music therapist 7) Gen. P.D. Roddey (1826-1897) Alabama Confederate 8) Dr. G. W. Holman American patent medicine 9) A.R. Shaw 10) Hon. J.C. New Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury 11) Henry S. Wellcome (1853-1936) pharmaceutical entrepreneur 12) Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff (1829-1906) Scottish politician 13) W. Everett? 14) Charles Williams 15) Maj. Henry Van Der Weyde (1838-1924) Dutch born English painter and photographer 16) Brent Good (1837-1915) Carter Medicine Co.; shocked in London Zeppelin Raid 17) J.N. Aronson electrical patentee 18) Eli Lemon Sheldon (1846-1892) close Stanley family friend whose wife Mary French Sheldon traveled to Mombasa and Kilimanjaro 19) Stanley on portrait 20) Stairs on portrait 21) Parke on portrait 22) Nelson on portrait 23) Mounteney-Jephson on portrait 24) G.G. Macpherson 25) M.P. McCoy London Agent Cottrell Presses 26) D. Dalziel of Dalziel's Cable News Agency 27) Townsend Percy 28) Edward H. Allen (1830-1895) G.A.R. The book measures just over 10 inches in height. Size: Octavo (8vo). Signed by Author(s). Autograph.