R bowdler sharpe editor (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. Volume 1 only. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Green cloth cover with gilt shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned. Lacking title page.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Type: Book pp XVI, 332 + 2. 1st printing. Quarter bound in cloth with calf spine labels. Marked boards, 2 edges untrimmed. With numerous excellent tissue guarded plates.

Vellum. Condizione: VG+. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. 1st Edition. Large paper edition. Complete in two (2) volumes, uniformly bound in full bevelled vellum, hand-painted armorial device on each front cover, spine panels lettered in orange, deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt. Vellum shows typical rubbing/soiling, moderate on Vol. I (which is more of a dull gray, thus VG), relatively minor on Vol. II (which remains off-white, Near Fine). Classic natural history of the East Hampshire district. xxiii,427 + xv,443 pp., illus. w/ 47 engraved plates (one double-page), folding facsimile letter (one being double page), folding facsimile letter (at Vol. I, p. 45). No. 138 of an edition limited to 160 copies (150 for sale), hand-numbered and signed the editor (Sharpe) and illustrators (Sullivan, Keulemans, and Railton) on colophon opposite Vol. I half-title. Illus. ornithological book plate of former owner Thomas Perry mounted inside front cover of each volume. The plate guards are typically toned to varying degrees, with offsetting, mild darkening, and/or foxing to some plates and adjacent text pages, mild foxing to deckled edges and minor to endpapers, interior otherwise generally clean and unmarked. A respectably preserved set. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. J. G. Keulemans, Herbert Railton, and Edmund J. Sullivan (illustratore). Signed by Author and Artist. Book.…

Quarto,two volumes, 870 pp.,lavishly illustrated by Keulemans and others. Publisher's vellum with armorial stamp, bookplate, limited to 150 numbered copies signed by the editor and artists, some tissue guards oxidised otherwise a handsome set. First published in 1789, Gilbert White's Selbourne is one of the most celebrated of all natural history commentaries. He was close to Sir Thomas Pennant and a regular correspondent. His famous book, like Walton's The compleat angler, has been the subject of numerous later editions. The Bowdler Sharpe edition of White's Selbourne is the most handsome and lavish of them all.…