Willmott robert aris selected and edited by (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Reading Copy. 1st. Blue embossed and beveled boards with gilt graphics and page edges. FIRST EDITION. The spine is missing as well as the front and rear end papers. The text is entire. There is foxing throughout. 100 fine woodcut illustrations. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. 380 pages. Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert (illustratore).…

Hard Back/Hard Cover. Condizione: Good +. No Dustjacket. First Edition. xv + 398 pages. Book has a forward lean. Slight FOXING/slight BLOTCHING throughout some pages of volume. Rebound with original ornately impressed gilt decorated (but dulled/lightly rubbed) front board & spine & plain impressed decorated rear set onto new binding with darkened beige cloth showing to hinges & ends of spine which have losses to original binding. Heavy wear to corners or new binding with frays exposing card of underlayer, wear through to card at bottom edges in places. Ink presentation inscription dated 1856 to free end-paper. Gilt to all page-edges. Outstanding b/w illustrations within text. Slight blotching to a good percentage of pages, but text is otherwise nice & clean. Binding a little strained in places. Well used. The Brothers Dalziel (engraved by) (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. pp. [21], 1-379, [1]. Beautifully bound in full, green morocco with raised bands and gilt decorations on the spine and front and rear covers. The name of the Trinity Church School, Springfield in gilt on the front cover. Very slight edge and corner wear. All edges are in gilt. No former owner's names in the book. Includes 100 illustrations. Interior of book is fairly clean with very light to moderate foxing. Book is very solid, square, and tight. Exterior and interior hinges are un-cracked. A handsome copy on the shelf. John Gilbert, J. Wolf, Birket Foster, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: N/A. 1st Edition. First edition of this collection of the works of various 19th poets, including James Beattie, Mary Tighe, Erasmus Darwin, Hannah More, Leigh Hunt, Wordsworth, Sotheby, James Hogg, Walter Scott, Gerald Massey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning etc. Illustrated with 100 engravings drawn by eminent artists of the time (including Birket Foster, Sir John Tenniel, T Dalziel, Millias, etc) and engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Includes one of Ford Madox Brown's rare illustrations for Byron's Prisoner of Chillon [Goldman - Victorian Illustrated Books 1850-1870, p. 82]. In blue cloth binding over bevelled boards, richly decorated with gold leaf, design by John Sliegh, whose initials appear as part of the design at the base of spine. All edges gilt. xvi, 400pp. 8vo. An important volume in this history of English book illustration [See Gleeson White, English Illustration, --105-107.] (Boards worn, rubbed at edges, a little frayed at spine tips, still attractive volume). Previous owner's bookplate on front paste down, gift inscription dated 1866 on front free endpaper, with small bookseller's ticket indicating the volume was once retailed by Napper and Wright Stationers and Booksellers on New Street, Birmingham. Small ticket on rear paste down indicating the volume was bound by leading binders, Edmonds & Remnants, London. Pencil note on title page. Some spotting around gutters but otherwise neat, clean, bright and tight internally. Various; Brothers Dalziel john sliegh, english illustrations, gleeson white, poetry, Beautiful Books, remnant and edmonds, edmonds and remnant, thomas remnant, jacob edmonds. Various; Brothers Dalziel (illustratore).…

Full calf. Condizione: Near fine. Third Edition. Large octavo, xv, 398pp, [1]. Fine binding by Edmonds and Remnants of London, in a decorative full calf. Covers ornately stamped, with five raised bands and title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt with gauffering, marbled endpapers. Stated "Third Edition" on title page. Solid text block, lightly rubbed corners, sunned spine, faint foxing throughout. Bookplate of the Earl of Portsmouth affixed to front endpaper. A striking example. The third edition of The Poets of the Nineteenth Century, selected and edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. (illustratore).…

Fine Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A scarce richly illustrated anthology of major English religious poetry, selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott. An early edition of the work, with 1861 as the earliest record of its being published; the next new edition published in 1862.Scarce.In full morocco prize binding with gilt decorations, borders, title, and fore edges, as well as marbled pastedowns and marbled first free endpapers. Front pastedown bearing the bookseller and stationer's plate of Henry Wright Stationer & Bookseller, New Street, Birmingham which is illustrated with a coat of arms. Inscription to the second front free endpaper reads 'Frank W. Elkington, a Remembrance from Edwin Laundry Xmas. 1868.' Beautifully illustrated throughout with monochrome vignettes including a frontispiece drawn by Holman Hunt, though appears to be missing three illustrations by Harrison Weir intended to appear on pp. 78, 79; these are 'The Only One -- The Earth', 'The Only One -- The Air', and 'The Only One -- The Sea'. Engraved by The Brothers Dalziel, who started London's largest and most influential wood engraving firm in the Victorian period, a golden age of British illustration. This is a lovely anthology of English religious poetry by some of the greats, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'The Weakest Thing', John Donne's 'Death', and John Milton's 'Morning Prayer in Paradise'. Selected, edited, and with contributions from Robert Aris Willmott, an English cleric and author. In full morocco binding with gilt decorations. Externally, boards smart with good colour and gilding bright, just the odd small mark or evidence of rubbing. Some dulling to the spine, and rubbing along the joints and to the raised bands which has resulted in loss of leather, as well as to the bottom fore edge. Slight bumping to corners. Marbled pastedowns and marbled free endpapers bright and clean. Front pastedown has bookseller and stationer's plate of Henry Wright Stationer & Bookseller, New Street, Birmingham illustrated with a coat of arms. Inscription to third front free endpaper reading 'Frank W. Elkington, a Remembrance from Edwin Laundry Xmas. 1868.' Hinges strained. Internally, some spotting throughout, not impacting text. Very Good. Holman Hunt, J. D. Watson, John Gilbert, J. Wolf, Etc. Engraved by The Brothers Dalziel. (illustratore). book.…