rylands george editor (7 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Hardback in good condition. Cover in oatmeal hessian, good with slight discoloration of spine, top & bottom front corners a little frayed, title in black lettering on brown (patches missing) stamped onto spine. Binding firm. Text (not paginated, 687 separate extracts + Index & Notes) very good. A selection of nearly 700 Shakespearean extracts, arranged by George 'Dadie' Rylands (19021999), literary scholar & theatre director, much involved with Bloomsbury Group especially Lytton Strachey & Virginia Woolf, Chairman of Cambridge Arts Theatre 194682.'The Ages of Man' is Rylands' best-known book, first published 1939, in which the extracts are arranged into 3 thematic sections: 1) ChildhoodMagic & FaeryNatureSportLove; 2) WarCivil StrifeKingshipGovernment & SocietyPassion & Character; 3) DeathSicknessSleepMan against HimselfOld AgeTimeFinis. The title is adapted from Jaques's 'All the World's a Stage' speech ('As You Like It'), and the book became the basis of John Gielgud's acclaimed one-man show of the same name, revived every year from 1956 to 1967.

FIRST EDITION, pp.(60); title design & 11 full-page illustrations in black & grey by Ayrton; very good in original patterned boards. 'An inspired selection from Cambridge writers of the first Elizabethan age and eleven drawings, no less inspired, by a sympathetic artist of the second'. Brooke Crutchley. Cambridge Illustrated Literature.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Text set in Garamond. 450 copies printed on Conqueror cream laid paper of which this is one of 400 bound in quarter maroon cloth, spine gilt, with Curwen paper-covered boards. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG+. Ayrton, Michael (illustratore). First Edition. An anthology, limited to 500 copies, published for Christmas 1958. Unpaginated. Pages are clean, and in very good condition. Endpapers clean. B/w, designed cloth, with gilt titles on the spine. Very light wear on corners. A delightful book, beautifully illustrated by Michael Ayrton. VG+. Book.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1881 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 88 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 88 Language: English,English.