brock c e illustrations (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. with four illustrations in colour and black-and-white by C.E. Brock (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound, decorated brown cloth boards. Scuffing with small peeling and bumping on cover and spine. Frontispiece is loose and creased. No jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback copy bound in half green leather, marbled boards with raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 420pp. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard, full page b/w plates, b/w illustrations within text. Gold gilt top page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, bookplate to front pastedown, few marks to half title page. (8/1).

Zustand: Good. Publisher's original period colour illustrated paper wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. Contains pp 282-348 (followed by illustrated advertisements) with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout, colour plates by Ernest Aris and E. Dorothy Reed. Dusty page edges and in Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

Decorated Cloth. Illustrations by C.E. Brock (illustrator). 1st thus. Octavo, original gilt decorated boards (pale green cloth with decorations and lettering in gilt), top edge gilt, dec endapers, colour illustrated title page, colour plates by C.E. Brock (fifteen plates including the frontis), pp 309. N.d. (1904). Previous owner's signature. Some foxing to the endpapers.A small dark mark to the edge of the rear free endpaper which carries through to the last few pages. Boards clean and bright. Very good condition. First edition thus (first Brock illustrated editioin), published as part of Dent's series of "English Idylls". A charming book in an attractive, Art Nouveau style binding. "Our Village" is the best-known book by Mary Russell Mitford (1787 ? 1855), the English essayist, novelist, poet and dramatist. It is a series of sketches of village scenes based upon her life, and was very popular when first published. The book is accompanied by colour illustrations by C.E. Brock, well-known for his illustrations for, among others, Jane Austen. (Mitford's description of village cricket in Our Village has been called "the first major prose on the game"). In his introduction to a 1997 reprint of selections from Our Village, Ronald Blythe stated that "it is hard to know what to praise most, her style or her spirit. Both rise to heights rarely found either in the women's journalism of her day or in a woman who by every law of the time should have been crushed by adversity.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Complete in Two Volumes. New York: Frank S. Holby (1906). Eight Plates. LXVI + 225 = 302 Pages. Chawton Edition limited to 1,250 numbered copies of which this is No.1,004. NearFine Hardcover (DarkGoldenRod cloth, Bookplates with title on the spine, no DJs). No Wear. Free of marks, inscriptions, etc. throughout. Strong tight binding, perfect hinges. 8.75"x5.75". be30x.