wilfred whitten ed (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Bumping. Content is aged toned. No DJ.

Condizione: Very Good. Rebound in 3/4 red leather. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear but spine heavily rubbed. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings, full-page colour plates.

Condizione: Very Good. Rebound in 3/4 red leather. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear but spine heavily rubbed. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings, full-page colour plates.

Condizione: Good. No Edition Stated. 476 pages. Beige cloth boards with a leather spine and corners. Volume Four. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.Surface tears to leather.

Condizione: Good. No Edition Stated. 464 pages. Beige cloth boards with a leather spine and corners. Volume 5. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.Surface tears to leather.

Hardcover. Condizione: Worn. No Jacket. Various Artists (illustratore). Spine coming adrift.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Undated, presumed 1924/25. Blue cloth with spine and corners in blue leather with title etc in gilt. Some wear, binding sound. All the colour plates are present and in great condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Undated, presumed 1924/25. Blue cloth with spine and corners in blue leather with title etc in gilt. Some wear, binding sound. All the colour plates are present and in great condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Undated, presumed 1924/25. Blue cloth with spine and corners in blue leather with title etc in gilt. Some wear, binding sound. All the colour plates are present and in great condition. Book.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). A highly illustrated volume of nostalgic recollections of London, by antiquarian John Thomas Smith. The first edition of the work to be annotated by Wilfred Whitten. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards. A work by Hackney-carriage-born John Thomas Smith, an English painter, engraver and antiquarian. The work offers a nostalgic recollection of London, covering the city's best known areas and building. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and 46 plates, many of which are coloured. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards. Externally, smart. Fading to spine, with bumping to the head and tail. Marks to boards, with shelf wear to edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down. Lacking front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright ad clean, with the odd spot to the front and rear. Offsetting to half title page. Very Good. book.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Multiple, including illustrations after Pugin and Rowlandson, Robert Cruikshank, and engravings from William Bond, James Bretherton. (illustratore). An uncommon edition of this work by Hackney-carriage-born John Thomas Smith, offering a nostalgic recollection of London. This edition is acknowledged by Wilfred Witten, the editor, to be the first thus annotated edition of the work. The first two editions of this work appeared in 1845, the third in 1861.Uncommon.Quarter paper vellum bound with gilt titles. Heartily illustrated with 47 plates, both monochrome and colour, including a frontispiece of the author (also, a plate missed from the work's 'List of Illustrations' titled 'Perdita Robinson' by J. T. Smith, on an unnumbered page [pp. 82-83]). Collated complete.Composed by a previous keeper of prints for the British Museum who was born in the back of a Hackney carriage, this work offers a nostalgic recollection of London, abounding with references to some of the city's best known areas and buildings. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum binding. Externally, some marks and dulling to the colour of the boards and to the spine. Gilding bright. Some bumping to the head and tail of the spine, joints, and corners, which has resulted in a minor closed tear to spine's binding at rear joint, and minor loss of paper cover at corners. Hinges somewhat tender. Gift Inscription on first free endpaper. Internally, pages have spotting and toning throughout, not impacting readability. The odd minor closed tears to bottom edge; these are on plates between pp. 212-213, between pp. 302-303, between pp. 308-39, and between pp. 316-317, not to illustrations in any instance. Good. book.