scott sir walter binding (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 5th or later Edition. 8vo., 352 pages, half-title present, all edges blocked in gilt, bound in contemporary fully navy blindstamped calf with decorative inner gilt dentelles, both covers with double gilt ruled borders with an elaborate gilt design within the borders, gilt decorated spine in compartments with raised bands. A near fine clean, tightly bound copy in a most handsome binding. Ex Libris Francis. L. Popham his fine engraved Littlecote House bookplate to upper pastedown and a neat presentation inscription to Francis L. Popham to blank front endpaper. Francis Leyborne Popham (1809 1880) was an English barrister and cricketer. He was associated with Oxford University Cricket Club and made his first-class debut in 1829. Popham was a member of the Popham family which at that time owned Littlecote House near Ramsbury. He was educated at Harrow School and University College, Oxford, matriculating in 1827. He graduated in 1831 and was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1831 43. He studied law at Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in 1837. Popham bred and owned the racehorse Wild Dayrell, winner of the 1855 Derby.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Lovely St. Margaret's Folkestone school binding. Contemporary green polished half-calf over green linen boards, with gilt tooling and titles to spine and school crest to front. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Mild toning to spine and some slight scuffing & shelf-wear. Endpapers and proximate leaves foxed. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Frontispiece. viii,979pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

12mo, pp. [iv] additional engraved title-page and title, 280; lightly browned throughout with some occasional spotting, more prominent stain to pp. 77-81 seemingly caused by a previous pressed flower or leaf no longer present; original tan morocco backed Mauchline ware wooden boards, made from 'the Breadalbane Woods, Aberfeldy', all edges gilt, with gilt tooled turn ins, engraving of the Tay Bridge, Aberfeldy on upper cover together with a verse by Burns, and a view of Aberfeldy on rear cover, lower rear corner missing, with some minor scuffing to surfaces; an appealing copy. An appealing example of a Scottish souvenir Mauchline Ware binding. Mauchline, located 11 miles inland from the Scottish coastal resort of Ayr and for some time the home of Robert Burns, was the centre of the industry, which at its peak in the 1860s, employed over 400 people in the manufacture of small, but always beautifully made and invariably useful wooden souvenirs and gift ware. Views of Scotland dominated the transfer ware. "Burnsian" views, by far, formed the largest single grouping and views associated with Sir Walter Scott probably the second. In addition to virtually every town and village, producers immortalized a great number of beauty spots, country houses, churches, schools, ruins and even cottage hospitals in transfer ware. The Isle of Wight was particularly popular, probably due to Victoria's love of the place. The industry flourished for 160 years and during that period hundreds of thousands of high quality wood ware souvenirs were despatched around the world and were much favoured by affluent Victorian travellers. The tail of the upper board is signed 'John Harrower, Jeweller, Aberfeldy'. See David Trachtenberg and Thomas Keith, Mauchline Ware, a Collector's Guide (2002).

Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. [N.p.]: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1910. First Thus. Quarto. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Christy throughout. Restored illustrated dust jacket (details below). Green cloth stamped in light green, yellow, and gilt, designed by Bertha Stuart with her initials to bottom right. Dust jacket restored with archival backing and color touch-up along edges and folds, with evidence of prior chips and tears at corners and along folds, current scuffing along front folds, and a bit of a textured sheen to surface as a result of the backing. Boards lightly bumped along edges. Bindings is sound and pages unmarked.