bede cuthbert pseud (10 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. (Oxford Paparbacks). xvii[i]+365[1]p. With illustrations by the author. Paper tanned, but internally very good with no marks, bound in bright and clean card covers illustrated in colour.

8vo, (182x122mm), iv,118p. wood-engraved illustrations by the author; title-page slightly dust-soiled. Disbound.

8vo, (184x123mm), [4]viii,271,[1]p. +8p publisher's adverts. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Original yellowback cloth binding, restored and recased in the original covers with replaced late 19th century paper pastedown endleaves, a small repair to the tail of the backstrip. Front cover lettered and illustrated in red and green and with publisher's adverts printed on the rear cover. The printed main title carries the imprint of Blackwood as noted above; however, the added illustrated title carries the imprint: William Paterson, Edinburgh & London, the publisher's adverts which both follow the text and are printed on the raer cover are for Blackwood. Printed by William Rider & Son who were active under that style between 1883 and 1893. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book, if possible the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.

FIRST EDITION. Half title, 31pp cata. unopened. Orig. bright green cloth. v.g. Sadleir 3435 in brown-orange cloth; Wolff 763 in wrappers. The less successful sequel to Verdant Green.

FIRST EDITION. Half title, final ad. leaf. Orig. green cloth, bevelled boards by Bone & Son; spine rubbed, inner hinge cracking. Not in Wolff's collection.

Front. port., additional illus. title, illus. Partially unopened in orig. brown morocco-grained cloth, borders in blind, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt on front board. Bookseller's ticket of W. M. Dalton, Charing Cross, on leading pastedown. A FINE copy. The Collected edition of the original 3 parts printed by Harrild.

Front. port., added engr. title, illus. by the Author. Orig. green cloth; spine dulled, hinges a little rubbed. The Collected edition of the original 3 parts printed by Harrild. This copy has a mortar board blocked within the title on front board and a bowing figure on the spine.

First edition; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); 24 hand-coloured plates including frontispiece and illustrated title, internally clean; later calf-backed cloth boards, and endpapers, spine blind tooled with gilt morocco lettering piece, publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth and spine laid on paper and bound in rear, all edges gilt; 83, [2]pp. A highly amusing account of photography as a hobby in the middle of the nineteenth-century by a renowned comedic artist and writer of the day. Edward Bradley (1827-1889) used the pen name Cuthbert Bede for his works including frequent contributions to Punch and other illustrated magazines. The illustrations are by his own hand and depict photographic processes and terms as visual puns.

BOUND WITH: The Further Adventures of Mr Verdant Green, 5th edn. James Blackwood, 1856. WITH: Mr Verdant Green Married and Done For:. FIRST EDITION. James Blackwood, 1857. WITH: The Autobiography of P.T. Barnum: clerk, merchant, editor, and showman. Ward & Lock, 1855. 4 works in 1 vol. in contemp. half maroon roan. Armorial bookplate of William Frederick Webb. Edward Bradley, 1827-1889, took Cuthbert Bede as his pseudonym after attending Durham University. He illustrated his own humorous books.

Pardon, 1824-84, journalist, miscellaneous writer, editor & author. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%.