bernard westmacott (6 Ergebnisse)

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Acceptable. shows heavy wear, tear, chipping, tanning, detached wraps.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Bernard Westmacott (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo, unpaginated, soiled cloth, with a pencilled birthday inscription in 1925. Illustrated by Bernard Westmacott.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xx, 219; 201. Original publisher's blue papered boards and brown spines, lettered black at the spines on labels. Engraved title page vignette. Half-title present and a tipped in 12 page catalogue of books for sale by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, dated April 1825. Occasional foxing in text, covers slightly rubbed and slight wear at hinges, otherwise sound, very good. Decent copy.

Uniform matching hard back binding in contemporary half burgundy leather covers, gilt title to the spines, marble paper covered boards, top edges gilt. Contains [xxiii] 417; [xvi] 399 printed pages of text. Regrettably all of the colour plates have been removed, still with title vignettes, monochrome headers and tail-pieces. Light rubbing to the boards, hinges sound and tight. Still a fascinating read albeit with the colour plates long gone. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No. First Edition. N.P.: Greenberg, Publisher, 1925. First edition [1925], with long and charming personalized 1925 inscription signed by the author on the half-title, addressed to Lillian (daughter of auto company co-founder J.M. Studebaker, but not identified as such in the inscription). Patterned hardcover printed in red and green, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout in variations of black, red and green, about 9" tall, no dustjacket. Covers are age-browned with some edgewear, very narrow chip at the lower edge of the rear joint, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages with no other names or markings. Inscribed by The Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

leather_bound. Cruikshank, Robert & Thomas Rowlandson (illustrator). First edition. 412, 399 pages. 24 x 15 cm. 71 hand-colored aquatints with tissue guards, of which 67 are by Robert Cruikshank, 2 by Rowlandson and one each by T. Wageman and G.M. Brightly; full page woodcut [Five Principal Orders of Society], and 74 woodcuts in the text, of these 23 are by Rowlandson, the others by Cruikshank, Wageman and Huges. With first issue points -- plate at p.389 in Vol. I misdated 1284 and p.222 in Vol. 2 blank. CBEL Vol. 14, p. 225. " The English Spy, both in text and in illustrations, is sometimes as coarse as ever was Smollet in word or Gillray in drawing, it contains many lively representations of life, high and low, gives much curious information about real people still recongisable under their fictitious names [including Charles Kemble, Macready, Grimaldi, Mme. Vestris, Mathews and Wallack, and also George IV and his mistress] , and preserves many tales of a past age." Further, CBEL notes this work was considered an offshoot of "Life in London," and that Westmacott "appears to have been a blackmailer; but was a spirited and amusing writer." Purportedly, Westmacott received a horsewhipping from Charles Kemble three years after this work was published. ABBEY LIFE 325. TOOLEY 504. Elegantly bound by W. Root & Son. raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, elaborate cover border panel gilt motifs frame inner four corner floral designs in gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Exceptionally clean, bright set; plates and text, Vol. I covers rehinged. Early 20th century full brick crushed morocco. Teg. Two vols. Fine.