Andrew houison (4 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover with Slipcase. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket as Issued. Facsimile of 1890 Edition. Would be fine condition but for single 1cm diameter abrasion to plates I, V, XIII, XIII and facing pages, due to adhesion. 110 plus 15 plates. Slipcase in good order. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Marrickville, View Production Pty. Ltd., 1983 [facsimile edition]/ 1890. Quarto, [iv] (first blank), xiv, 110 pages with several illustrations and 2 full-page plates plus 13 further pages of plates. Synthetic cloth decorated and lettered in gilt; a fine copy in the near-fine slipcase (slightly indented).…

110 large pp printed single sided. The author's own proof copy with typed letter inserted explaining that the book had been purchased from the author in 1915 and was now being donated to an auction raising funds for the war effort. Bound in original full red decorated calf with new spine. Some light foxing. Lacking the 15 plates but obviously produced this way. Small embossed library h/s on f.e.p. of the R.P.S. Some pages have neat pen annotations by the author.…

First Edition. First edition, 4to, pp. v, [9], 110; 15 photogravure plates (1 folding); original albumen photograph of a stamp affixed at the top of the title page; margins ruled in red throughout; generally a fine copy; original gilt-stamped upper cover neatly inlayed into later matching cloth, and backed in black morocco with gilt lettering direct on spine. Ferguson 10573: "Dr. Houison was specially commissioned by the Government of New South Wales to produce this excellent work, but it was soon after withdrawn from circulation owing to forgeries of stamps being made from plates in the book. The edition was limited to a small number of copies. These are now rare and valuable." A facsimile reprint was done in 1983.…