Meadows m et al (3 risultati)
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Da: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Regno UnitoAnybook.com
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Usato - Buono
EUR 3,48
EUR 15,87 spedizioneSpedito da Regno Unito a U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:3921957044.
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Heads of the People or Portraits of the English
Douglas Jerrold; W. M. Thackeray; Leigh Hunt; Mrs. Gore; et al.
Editore: George Routledge and Sons, London, 1878
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Da: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Regno UnitoRooke Books PBFA
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleMembro dell’associazione: PBFA
Condizione: Usato - Molto buono
EUR 144,23
EUR 29,16 spedizioneSpedito da Regno Unito a U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloLeather. Condizione: Very Good. Kenny Meadows' witty caricatures of the English with essays by a variety of authors, complete in two uniformly bound volumes. Two volumes in half calf bindings with marbled end papers and edges. Illustrated with 108 illustrations. Collated, complete. A two-volume set containing Kenny Meadows' witt…y caricatures of various English stereotypes in the nineteenth century, including the Chaperon and the Debutante, the Old Squire, the British Sailor, the Radical M.P., the Medical Student, the Factory Child, and many more. These illustrations are accompanied by original essays by distinguished writers, such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Leigh Hunt, and others. In half calf bindings. Externally, generally smart, though somewhat rubbed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Plate of 'lawyer's clerk' detached but intact. Very Good. Kenny Meadows (illustratore). book.
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Editore: George Routledge and Sons, London, 1878
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Da: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Regno UnitoRooke Books PBFA
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleMembro dell’associazione: PBFA
Condizione: Usato - Molto buono
EUR 540,85
EUR 35,00 spedizioneSpedito da Regno Unito a U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloLeather. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. A half morocco edition of Kenny Meadow's humorous work discussing people's features and how they denote personality, in signed bindings by Henderson & Bisset. An excellent example of this work, in half morocco signed bindings by Henderson & Bisset.This work looks at peoples faces, and d…iscusses in a satirical manner how their features denote their personality.Some of the people described in the volumes include the Whig, the ballet mistress, the young squire, the poor curate, the quack doctor, the collegian, the dowager, the barrister, the waiter, and more.Illustrated with a frontispiece and illustrated title page to each volume.Volume I features forty-nine further plates, and volume II features fifty-two further plates. Collated, complete.Illustrated by Kenny Meadows, a caricaturist who is best known for his contributions to 'Punch'. His illustrations were known for a humorous bohemian style, and for the quality of his illustrations. This was his first major work. Contributors to the work, writing essays to accompany Meadow's illustrations, include William Makepeace Thackeray, Leigh Hunt, Douglas Jerrold, and William Howitt.With the illustrated bookplate of American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to each front pastedown. Carnegie, born in Scotland, emigrated to America as a child, and was instrumental in the expansion of the American steel industry, becoming one of the richest Americans in history, and a leading philanthropist in the United States, Great Britain, and the British Empire. During the last eighteen years of his life, he gave away ninety percent of his fortune to charitable causes. In half morocco signed bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. Light rubbing to board tails. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages of volume I exceptionally clean and bright. Ten plates of volume II feature major tide marks, with light tide marks to the heads of twenty further plates. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. Kenny Meadows (illustratore). book.
