Forget di ackermann (4 risultati)

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Hardcover. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Some rubbing to spines and edges of boards. 1826 volume lacking 2 plates. Splits to gutter at front hinges. 1823 volume with inscription dated 1822. Moderate foxing to plates in 1823 volume. Attractive appearance.; Inscription in blank space on engraved "Forget Me Not" plate at front: "To Anna M. Elton / the gift of her Mama / Dec 21st / 1822". viii, (3)-392 pages + "Forget Me Not" plate at front + frontispiece + 12 plates. 19th century full calf binding (contemporary?) with gilt decoration to spine, gilt panels to boards. Green lettering piece on spine. Gilt year "1823" at tail of spine. Gilt decoration to edges of boards. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Page dimensions: 133 x 81mm. This 1823 volume is the first issue of this annual series. "The British Public is here presented with the first attempt to rival the numerous and elegant publications of the Continent, expressly designed to serve as tokens of remembrance, friendship, or affection, at that season of the year which ancient customs has particularly consecrated to the interchange of such memorials." - page (v). "The Plates consist of a highly finished engraving, by AGAR, of a Madonna, after Gemignano, on whom the genius of his master Raphael so largely rested, and emblematical representations of the Twelve Months, also engraved by AGAR, from designs by BURNEY. [. . .] In addition to the above-mentioned Plates, there will be found at the beginning of the volume an engraved wreath of the flower, bearing the name selected for the title of this work, with a blank purpose for the purpose of receiving a presentation inscription." - page vii. "It is intended that the FORGET-ME-NOT shall be ready for delivery every year, early in November" - page viii. [Together with] defective volume (lacking 2 plates) for 1826 (fourth year of issue), in a matching binding. Pagination of 1826 volume: [2 (engraved title)], (viii), 386 pages + 12 of 13 plates. Lacking the final plate "Contemplation" which is called for facing page 379, but is bound in as the frontispiece in some copies; it is absent from this copy. Very Good- No dust jacket as issued. …