Robinson spence johnson (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Bright green cloth boards with read/black lettering. Illustrations throughout. Soiled with few pages dog eared. NO markings. Ethel Dugger & Henrietta Houy (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. A smart, twenty-three-volume, illustrated edition of the works of Sir Walter Scott. Collection comprised of:The Abbot;Red Gauntlet;The Monastery;Ivanhoe;Woodstock;Peveril of the Peak;Castle Dangerous;Waverley;The Black Dwarf and A Legend of Montrose;The Bride of Lammermoor;The Fortunes of Nigel;The Talisman;Old Mortality;The Poetical Works of Walter Scott;St Ronan's Well;Guy Mannering;Rob Roy;Kenilworth;The Antiquary;The Pirate;Quentin Durward;The Heart of Mid-Lothian;The Betrothed. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original maroon leatherette soft covers. Undated, dated from copies held by the National Library of Scotland. All copies are illustrated by the likes of Wilmot Lunt and J. E. Sutcliffe, including with a vignette title page and, excluding Castle Dangerous, with a frontispiece. With the exception of Waverley, which contains fourteen plates, all volumes also feature a further six plates. An exhaustive collection of twenty-three of the Collins illustrated pocket edition of the works of Sir Walter Scott. An eminent writer and historian, Scott remains a leading figure in Scottish history, best known for his "Waverly" novels and impressive narrative poems, such as Marmion and The Lady of the Lake. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original maroon leatherette soft covers. The Abbot features a colour postcard tipped in to page 266; The Betrothed features the frontispiece and first two pages of the John S. Brown and Sons Canadian edition of the Holy Bible, folded in two and heavily discoloured and spotted, tipped in to the front of the work; Peveril of the Peak contains an advertisement for the Glasgow-based wholesale musicseller Frank Simpson to page 210. Externally, lovely condition with only minor bumping and rubbing. Light fading along some of the spines, especially to Castle Dangerous and The Bride of Lammermoor. A few marks can be seen across the collection, more prominent to the rear of Rob Roy. Peak and Peveril features slightly heavier loss of cloth along the rear joint, reinforced with tape. Internally, firmly bound. The frontispiece and title page of The Antiquary and Woodstock remain unopened, as does page 386 to The Antiquary. A very bright and clean collection with only occasional spotting, more common to the first and last few pages of each volume. Very Good Indeed. D. Chamberlain; Wilmot Lunt; A. T. Smith; R. Johnson; J. E. Sutcliffe; Paul Hardy; A. H. Buckland; S. V. Spence; John Schonberg; Malcolm Patterson; T. H. Robinson; C. J. Staniland; Herbert E. Butler (illustratore). book.…