Amelia m watson (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover; 8vo; 2 volumes. Illustrated throughout with numerous coloured sketches in text. Green cloth with gilt titles and design on spines and upper boards. Top-edge gilt, fore-edge rough cut. Red silk ribbons bound in. Gently sunned spines. Bright and clean interiors, some foxing of endpapers. Edge of title page of volume one lightly chipped. Charming set. VG/--. Watson, Amelia M. (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Lovely two volume set. Volume 1 has 173 pages, volume 2 has 208 pages, including the index. The pages are in very good, clean, white condition. Beautiful colour illustrations. Endpapers are lightly foxed and with a few small stains. Top edge gilt. Art nouveau covers by Sarah Whitman. Covers are green cloth with gilt titles and illustrations. Slight fading on the spines, as well as upper cover of volume 1. Light wear on the corners. Bindings tight. The books are beautiful and in very good condition. VG+ Size: 5 x 7 1/2. Watson, Amelia M. (illustrator). Book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. A deluxe 2 volume set of Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau, with beautiful water colour illustrations by Amelia Watson. A lovely edition of Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau in a complete 2 volume set, published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Reprinted by the Riverside Press in 1899.In the publisher's original decorative cloth, with a colour frontispiece in each volume. Numerous in-text illustrations by Amelia Watson of Thoreau's scenic travels in both volumes. Volume 1 covers chapters 1-6, while volume 2 covers chapters 7-10.A great American literary figure known for weaving themes of natural beauty and human nature, Thoreau's Cape Cod describes the several trips he made to the charming New England region between 1849 and 1855. Thoreau's writing is more light-hearted compared to other works, as he offers an affectionate portrait of the scenery and self-reliant people who live there.Accompanying Thoreau's observations are beautiful water colour illustrations by Amelia Watson that originally made this two volume set a commercial and artistic success. In the publisher's original decorative cloth boards. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to the spines, with the occasional handling marks to front boards. Minimal signs of shelf wear. Offsetting to end papers, with the rare odd spot. Less apparent to rear end paper in volume 2. Internally, generally firmly bound. Binding tender to half-title leaf and a detached frontispiece in volume 1. Binding tender to leaf containing title page on Volume 2. Pages are bright and clean, with rare sign of dirt trapped towards hinges. Very Good Indeed. Amelia M. Watson (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, MA. 1896. 173 & 208 pgs. Illustrated with Two full-page color frontispieces with tissue guards plus numerous smaller color vignettes throughout as headpieces, tailpieces and in the margins. First, thus. Art Nouveau book cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman, among the most important women book designers in America. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to upper panel and spine; lower panel blind-stamped with upper panel design. Top edge gilt. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spines are faded). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Arguably some of Thoreau's most beautiful writings on American history and natural scenery, this collection is dedicated to the poet's ruminations on the beaches of Cape Cod. Exploring the variety of natural life and human interests that have intersected on the Cape, Thoreau brings the richness of its history and natural beauty to life with his poetic, and occasionally outlandish, musings. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. …

Zustand: Good. 2 volume set. Hardcover. No dustjackets. Significant fading & some marks to covers. Ribbon markers a bit frayed. Light tanning to pages, darker at edges/endpapers. Content very good.