bennet rev william (3 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). A scarce collection of poetry written by two members of the clergy Rev. Richard Chester and Rev. William Bennet Chester. Author's presentation copy with the inscription that reads 'Presentation Copy from the Authors' to the front blank, with an addition inscription to the reverse of the title page that reads: 'William G. Meredyth, With the affectionate regards of his attached friend & Brother - W. B. Chester. Dublin 1850'. With the previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of 'Meredyth'. Written by the Rev. Richard Chester, the former preacher and curate of the Cathedral of St. Coleman, and the Rev. William Bennet Chester, the Vicar of Killard and Kilmaccluane. A scarce collection of poetical works. In a full morocco binding. Externally sound, with heavy patches of rubbing to the spine and extremities. Previous owners bookplate to the front pastedown, with handling marks to the front and rear endpapers. The front hinge is strained. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional handling mark, and light offsetting to pages 190-191. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dickes, William; et al (illustrator). 1st Edition. [1862?]. 40pp plus 18 leaves of tissue-guarded plates (chromoxylographs). Plates engraved and printed by William Dickes after Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Stothard, Thomas Gainsborough, and other old masters, with prose illustrations by Rev Bennet George Johns. Blue cloth boards with extensive gilt decoration and lettering. All edges gilt. Large folio. Boards rubbed and worn, especially at corners and spine ends, where there is some fraying and minor loss, a couple of small indentations along upper edge on verso, mild marks. Front free endpaper absent, gutter cracked between endpapers. One plate loose. Others have left impression on protective leaves. Binder's ticket on rear endpaper - Westleys & Co., London. Prints were first issued in monthly parts, separately mounted, 1859-1862. Dickes biographer, Alfred Docker, bequeathed 1370 of Dickes' works to the British Museum in 1931. Scarce, hard to find title. LHD notes five copies : British Library, National Library of Scotland, V&A Libraries and Oxford and Cambridge Universities.