bewick thomas illus (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1948. No edition remarks. 55 pages. No dust jacket. Paper covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original paper-covered boards with paper labels. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 88 pages. Subjects; BRIGHTER SIDE ANTHOLOGY. 3 Kg.

Zustand: Good. Second Enlarged Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Rebound with new endpapers. Pages foxed and browned with areas where text is faded. Closed tears to occasional page occasional pages (some expertly repaired). 240mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 205pp. Stipple engraved frontispiece and 4 woodcuts attributed to Thomas Bewick. Purple cloth spine on marbled boards.

hardcover. Illus. by Thomas Bewick (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 286 pp., "Embellished with engravings on wood by Bewick, from Thurston's designs", Printed for James Wallis, Paternoster Row by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. The poem is preceded by a 16-page "Life of Thomson" and followed by a six-page index & glossary. Each season has an engraved frontis- and tailpiece while " Hymn" at the end has only a frontispiece (as called for).Bound in full red leather, spine in five compartments with four raised bands; floral gilt decorations on three panels and additional gilt decorations on the slightly wider-than-normal bands; front & rear boards have both gilt- and blind-stamped borders; gilt decoration on the visible inner edges of the boards; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. A handsome but unsigned binding. Modern gift inscription on first blank leaf Nearly fine copy in full leather.

Zustand: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed. Front hinge on volume I cracked and weak. Loss to marbling on volume II. Some foxing. 300mm x 240mm (12" x 9"). vii, 276pp; 310pp. 26 b/w plates. Woodcut vignettes by Thomas Bewick. Published 1803 & 1804. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards.