Stawell retold (10 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Green cloth binding is age-dulled, but showing little wear. No distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving. 12 color plates by Detmold. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. There is light foxing to the front and rear blank end sheets and pastedowne. There is also foxing on a number of the color plates. No name of previous owner. No odor. No dust jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. E.J. Detmold (illustratore).…

Unknown Binding. Condizione: Good. dent edition on blue cloth.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very good+ with foxing to the prelims and the frontis only, front hinge starting, slight wear to the edges. A beautiful book with wonderful illustrations. No dust jacket.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 271 pages.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Good to Fair. Reprint. Pictorial cloth boards; xi, 227pp; colour frontis plus b/w ills. Lean to spine with rubbing and bumping to extremities, rubbing, puckering and marking to cloth; dent to fore-edge of rear board. A reproduction of Homer's Odyssey retold in English to appeal to children. [120: H3]. ROBINSON, Charles (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Roughly A4 in size, this wonderful book is a hardback, cloth bound, with gilt titles to spine and front board, along with beautiful designed gilt decoration. This book is a used book therefore normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with age and use. No published date within the book, probably around 1921. Its a reasonably heavy book when packaged properly, so for overseas buyers postage/shipping may increase from listed price depending on final destination. 184 pages, all intact and 12 x Stunning illustrations. Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable Ltd, at the Edinburgh University Press. The top part of the spine looks like it was crushed at some time with small wear, also the spine is sun-bleached, please see photos, there are a few brown foxing marks to edge of papers, and illustrations are all in fine order, and all illustrations have their tissue guard papers intact. Overall its a really nice book that has stood the test of time and still has plenty of valuable use to be had for future generations that are interested in insects. E.J. DETMOLD (illustratore). …

Hardcover. First Edition. 271pp. 12 tipped in color plates by Detmold (3 with minor corner creases). A clean, tight, VG+ copy. Size: Large 8vo (10.25" tall). Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Illus. with 12 cold. plates, incl. frontis. 8vo. library binding. EX-LIB. copy. Occasional library markings throughout, generally good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First English Edition / Fourth Print (first published in English 1921, first published under "Souvenirs Entomologiques" in French 1879). Hardback copy in dark green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine, no dustjacket. 271pp. 12 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece), with titled tissue guards. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light foxing to endpapers. (39/1).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Undated [1921]. [viii], 184pp, plus tipped in colour plate frontispiece and eleven further tipped in colour plates, each with a captioned tissue-guard. Handsomely rebound in a fine binding of cushioned Tuscan-red morocco by the binder, AB, whose monogram stamp appears at the rear, dated 1980. With gilt decorations and lettering and recessed, inlaid decoration on grey morocco on front and rear, the inlay panels surrounded by single gilt fillet borders. Brown textured endpapers. Top edge gilt. 4to. Binding is fine. There is a little aging to the original pages else volume neat, clean, bright and tight. No ownership marks or inscriptions. A condensed and stunningly illustrated version of Jean-Henri Fabre's (1823-1925) ten-volume work on insects. The text base on Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' unabridged translation of Fabre's 'Entomological Memoirs;, retold in abridged form by Mrs Rodolph Stawell (who also wrote 'Fairies I Have Met') and aimed at a younger audience. It is accompanied by twelve intricate and dreamy full colour illustrations, all by E J Detmold which compliment perfectly Fabre's whimsical style in describing the six-legged little creatures. A sought after and scarce volume made unique by its handsome and well-crafted binding. An extraordinary copy of an acknowledged classic of illustrative art. Statement of purchase dated 2002 loosely laid in giving partial provenance. Detmold, Edward J (illustratore).…

Hodder and Stoughton Limited London n.d., 184 pp., nice col. plates, bigger hardcover (code Sc-267).