after wells (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Folio. Black and white wood engravings. Very Good. Provenance: From the collection of the late Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Multiple including after Sir George Richmond R. A., F. Winterhalter, and H. T. Wells. (illustrator). This illuminating selection of Queen Victoria's correspondence in three volumes with several monochrome plate illustrations, full bound in blind stamped red cloth. This smart three volume set in the publisher's original, blind stamped, full cloth binding.Illustrated with sixteen monochrome plates after portraits of Queen Victoria across the three volumes, including a frontispiece to each volume. Collated complete.A selection of Queen Victoria's correspondence between 1837 and 1861, edited by Lord Esher, a British historian and Liberal Party politician, and, Arthur Benson, an essayist and poet who wrote The Upton Letters (1905) and From a College Window (1906). These three volumes offer fascinating insight into several key events and relationships in the life and reign of Queen Victoria, including the British Raj, the French colonial occupation of Algeria, and the death of both her mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and husband, Prince Albert, in 1961. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally, generally very smart with one or two minor handling marks and slight fading to the spine's cloth. Some rubbing and bumping to the spines' head and tails and extremities, with one fractional split to the cloth at the head of the spine of Volume III. Internally, some sections of the binding are strained. Pages are lightly age toned, heaviest to the endpapers, however are generally bright and clean with just the odd minor handling mark, age spot, closed tear, and chip, not impacting text. Very Good. book.

Zustand: Good. Folio. 28 x 42.5 cm. Contemporary black morocco with gilt dentelles on the edges of the covers and hte spine. Spine repaired and repair on lower front cover. 60 soft ground etchings, full page plates, many handcoloured. References: Abbey, Life,in England, no. 203.; OCLC Number :9369595.

Zustand: Good. Hand-colored wood engraving. 41 x 30 cm (sheet). Text on verso. Very Good, a light stain at right sheet edge.

Zustand: Good. 13" x 20.5" (image size). Good with miniscule tear at left edge. Wood cut engraving.

A wooded landscape with a small house on the left. Lettered below image: "From the Original in the Collection of Geo. Hibbert Esqr.", with production detail: "T. Gainsborough Delt.", "W.F. Wells sculp." and publication line: "Published by W.F. Wells & J. Laportee". ca. 1820. Soft ground etching on paper; total: 239 x 307 mm; this print was included, hand-tinted and without the reference to Hobbert's collection, in Wells & Laporte's 'English Scenery' collection of prints after the drawings of Gainsborough.