Albert smith illustrator john leech (2 Ergebnisse)

pp.1-10 text, 15 detached plates with tissue-guards (as called for), text (concluding mid-sentence), bound in to grey-blue printed wraps, reinforced spine, 2" closed tear, chipped and sunned. Full quotation of title om front wrap: Specimen copy for the Plates only | The Marchioness of Brinvilliers | By | Albert Smith | Illustrated by John Leech | [Bentley insignia] | With fifteen spirited full-page Etchings on Steel, only once before printed from,* onthe first publication of the story, in its serial | form, about 1842. | *Besides twenty-seven impressions for the Leech Catalogue. | In one volume, royal 8vo, cloth binding; to be issued in the autumn of 1886.[Imprint]" This is one of two copies found in the residue Bentley archive (list provided on request) which also included a volume with specimen plates from Julia Pardoe's "Francis the First and his Time". An unusual piece of publishing history, reflecting the Bentley penchant for printing minimal quantities of items to be enjoyed in-house. From the Bentley Archive. No copy listed on COPAC.…

16mo, with the first three issues continuously paginated to 240, and issue V paginated 321-400. Each volume with a frontispiece by Leech, and numerous illustrations by him in text. Three of the four issues (I, III and V) with an initial four-pages of advertisements, and more advertisements on the wraps. The four volumes in fair condition, on aged paper, in worn wraps, with the first volume lacking its spine. Each with the small and neat ownership inscription of 'L Jackson' in the top right-hand corner of its front wrap. The magazine was short-lived, ending with the sixth issue in December 1851. Described, in the introduction to the first volume, as a 'light periodical', intended to 'beguile a railway or steam-boat journey, without any great tax on the attention' (I, p.3).…