r boyd morrison editors (5 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback, blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt illustration to front board. 28cm x 23.5cm. xv, 133pp + several colour and b&w plates with tissue guards to rear. 1st edition 1928. Spine marked, bottom corners of boards slightly bumped. Some occasional foxing to contents. A decent copy. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (a0).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Stout 4to. Pp. xv, 143, complete with colour frontispiece and 109 plates, all with captioned guards, head & tail pieces, many text illustrations . First edition. Publisher's blue cloth, bright gilt-stamped cover decoration, gilt spine lettering. Covers just slightly soiled and scuffed, else a very good, clean and fresh copy.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. A magisterial work on the subject, organized around essays of narrower topics such as Revue, Opera, Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith; cumulatively, these are a virtual sweeping survey of theater costume without the plodding quality of a book announcing itself as a survey, and the caliber of writers and artists lend a spark to the text and artwork seldom encountered in a survey. 4to. 28 by 22.5 cm. xv, [1], 143 pp. 110 plates (frontis, then numbered I to CIX). Edges of spine rubbed,and small spots of worn through cloth along edges. Spine tips with tiny closed tearing. A hint of shake to the binding. Otherwise, a very clean copy. 46 of the plates are full color plates. Plates on a glossy paper stock, with accompanying tissue guards with crediting discreetly printed on verso, or facing side, of tissue guards. Also an abundance of illustrations scattered throughout the text.

First edition; 4to (27.5 x 22.5 cm); illustrated frontispiece and 109 plates with guard sheets, black and white illustrations throughout the text, small bookselle's sticker to upper paste down; blue boards with gilt costume design to upper cover, spine gilt lettered, some minor foxing to preliminary leaves, a good copy. Designs by Beerbohm, E. Gordon Craig, Dulac, Ricketts, Rutherston, Paul Nash, Claud Lovat Fraser and so many others. Literary contents by Beerbohm, Cyril Beaumont and 11 others.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 4to. xvi+146pp. Colour frontispiece (by William Orpen), 111 pages of plates (45 in colour), and in text illustrations. Limited edition of 25 copies, this numbered 22. Printed on hand-made paper, top edge gilt. Gilt cover design by Gordon Craig. Original publisher's cream quarter vellum lettered gilt at the spine over mauve boards with gilt cover design/ illustration by Gordon Craig. Articles by theatre experts, with superb illustrations of costumes designed for the stage. The designers include Edward Gordon Craig, Laurence Bradshaw, Max Beerbohm, Lucy Norton, Albert ffrench Salkeld, Norah McGuinness, Paul Shelving, Edmund Dulac, Doris Zinkeisen,Charles Ricketts, Claud Lovat Fraser, Oliver Messell and William Nicholson. Some of these designs were previously unpublished. Cavanagh, British Theatre. A Bibliography 1901 to 1985, 525: 'Limited edition of 25 numbered copies on hand-made paper. This includes two plates in colour, not in the ordinary edition. All the designs are by English artists.' Bright clean very good indeed copy with slight foxing to some of the captioned tissue guards and rear of plates.