Alken henry illus (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Ink inscription to fep. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 240pp. 31 colour plates. Purple/gilt hardback cloth cover.

Red hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. First FS Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Spine faded. 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 228pp + plates. 14 colour plates.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Special Edition. 228 pages (complete). Folio Society edition of a book famous and loved enough to be referred to in "Mrs Dalloway". Prettily illustrated. The dustjacket is dustily genteel. It has some wear and light tear. It is secure and sits well. The boards have gentle wear about the edges but are otherwise smart and clubbable. Within, the pages, front and rear, have some foxing. The bulk of the pages are clean, neat, smart, assured, pleasing. fn. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

First Edition thus. Good copy in contemporary gilt-blocked green cloth boards, now lightly scuffed and spotted. Corners bumped, with joints and endbands torn in places (no loss). Reader gift inscription (1928) to front free endpaper. Text block remains sound and clean; colour plates retain their letterpress tissue-guards. A well-preserved example overall. Provenance; bookplate of Thomas Picton Rose-Richards. Physical description; xxv, [1], 234 pages : frontispiece (colour), [19] colour plates ; 27 cm. Notes; Date conjectural. Engraved title page. "By Nimrod," i.e. Charles James Apperley. "Reprinted (with considerable additions) from the New Sporting Magazine." Subjects; Mytton, John (1796-1834). Hunting. Shooting. Driving. Racing. Eccentrics. 19th century. Shropshire. England. Biography. 1 Kg.…

Zustand: Good. New Edition Revised. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Covers rubbed. Prelims and endpapers browned. 270mm x 180mm (11" x 7"). xvi, 238pp; vii, 184pp + plates. 12 hand-coloured plates. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. Green hardback cloth cover with gilt fox decoration.…

Zustand: Good. Second Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Modern rebind. 260mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). viii, 402pp + plates. 38 hand-coloured coloured plates. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Marbled hardback boards with maroon leather spine.

Zustand: Very Good. Second Edition. VG : in Very Good condition. Cover lightly rubbed. Corners bumped and with minor wear. Spine sunned. Some light foxing to prelims - otherwise contents clean and bright. Heraldic bookplate to front pastedown. Previous owner's insc to fep. 260mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). viii, 402pp + plates. 38 hand-coloured coloured lithographic illustrations, some tipped in. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Red/gilt hardback cloth cover with gilt equestrian motif. …

Zustand: Good. Second Edition. G : in Good condition. Cover rubbed and bumped. Neatly rebacked with new eps retaining the majority of original spine. Light foxing with some darkening to page ends. Details of previous owner on verso of frontis illustration. Tissue guarded plates bright. Contents tight. 260mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). viii, 402pp + plates. 38 hand-coloured coloured illustrations, some tipped in. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Red/gilt hardback cloth cover with gilt equestrian motif.…

Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition 39/60. VG : in very good condition. Covers rubbed with some fade edge wear. Spines darkened. 320mm x 230mm (13" x 9"). xi, 168pp; vii, 233pp. 72 plates (36 hand- coloured, 36 sepia). Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. Light blue boards with cream cloth spines.…

Stated Third Edition. Octavo. 25.5cm. Bound in a lavish contemporary full crushed red morocco titled and embellished in gilt. [viii]; 291pp.; [1] ads. Lightly scuffed to corners, with a little cosmetic darkening and scuffing to the spine, tight and handsome; internally clean and fresh, top edge gilt, grey endpapers, a little pale spotting in places, usually from contact with the colored plates, and some very minor soiling here and there. A very good and exceptionally handsome example in an accomplished unsigned binding, stated as English, but signed only with a gilt horsehead device, most likely under commission from a bookseller. A handsome presentation of one of Surtee's more popular and endearing creations; John Jorrocks, a rather red-faced and portly grocer of means with a sharp cockney accent and a liking for all things sporting and dashing. Surtees himself was less of a success in the Victorian period than his rather more staid and less "vulgar" competitors like Whyte-Melville whose sporting novels were all bestsellers. It was more as the Victorian age expanded into enthusiastic Imperialism and colossal expansion that the bourgeois 'baseness' of Surtees characters became more popular, it's not for nothing that Stalky, the rather caddish and cynical schoolboy of Kipling's tales, frequently quotes Jorrocks, and like many Victorian young men expands the vocabulary of the hunting field into every corner of life. Although by the time of this edition the world of the Top o' The Trees sportsman and the Corinthian in his Four Horse Club rig-out were the realm of grandfatherly reminiscence, the respectably "manly" pursuits of shooting, hunting, and fishing still held a cultural stranglehold on young men. Sports literature was seen very much as nourishment for good sons of the Empire; be it on the rugby or football field, or cross-country at breakneck pace, it was considered that the education of the sporting field would put young men on the right path, and prepare them for the future challenges of life.…

Red half morocco. Zustand: Good. Second Edition. G+ : in good condition plus with marbled eps. Spine lightly faded. Browning to preface pages and scattered browning elsewhere. Teg. Heraldic book-plate on paste-down. 260mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). viii, 402pp + plates. 38 hand-coloured coloured plates. Book-plate of George Marten 'En Dieu Est Tout'. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. …