Charles b cotton (7 Ergebnisse)

VG orig. gray boards, white paper spine and cover title-pieces. vi, 74 p.; 8 pl.; 22 cm. [Appendices to the first edition, 1924, are not included in this reprinting] [balance of title] Together with a chapter on the remains of the Friary and its restoration, by R. H. Goodsall. 2nd edition. Binding is Hardcover.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Exceptional copy. Green boards with gilt to spine. Contents clean, bright and tight.Illustration facing page 110 loose, but doesn't in any way detract - but hence lower price. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details - only too pleased to help.

Zustand: vg. Very Good. Hardcovers, 2 volumes, light green cloth over boards with white cloth backstrips, gilt lettering and design, 357 pages. All plates and tissue guards present. Large Quartos. Text remarkably clean, bright, unmarked. Endpapers browned, staining to backstrips, corners lightly bumped and worn. #426 of 500 signed and numbered by Marston. Previous owner's nameplate (Louis Eben Poole) on both front endpapers. Please fel free to email for photos.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Ex library rebound hardbacks, no DJs; usual stamps/markings. Two volume set. This demy quarto edition is limited to 500 copies - this no 313 & signed by the editor. Published in 1888 by Samson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London. Volume i has a slight lean to spine - both volumes have tanning to endpapers & light tanning to page edges with some foxing otherwise clean, sound copies. All 54 plates c/w descriptive tissue guards intact & free from markings. Heavy set will ship oversaes for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-2F*.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. A good hardcover two volume set A presentation copy to the English Faculty Library, Oxford University. Two discrete library stamps but never in the catalogue. The Lea and Dobe 100th edition. Limited, number 346 of 500 copies. Edition number and editor's signature penned on reverse of volume one's half title page. Boards and spines are marked and lightly scored. Rear board of volume one is sunned. Spines are tanned. Spine of volume two is slightly rippled. One centimetre tear on spine foot of volume one. Shelf marks on spine feet. Leading corners and spine ends are bumped, worn and nicked. Lower edges are lightly bumped and worn. Page block and pages are tanned and marked with creases throughout. Pen on pastedowns. Library stamps on FEPs and reverse of title pages. FEP to title page of volume two are detached from binding. Front pastedown hinges are split and binding is visible throughout but remaining pages are intact. Pages are rough-cut and nicked. Ten centimetre tear on FEP of volume two . One centimetre tear on leading edge of page 351. Errata slip intact. Contents and maps present and very clear. HCW. Used.…

Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. A beautiful Ramage bound limited edition of Izaak Walton's important work on fishing, a smart illustrated edition of only five hundred copies. The one hundredth edition of this important work.In a beautiful half crushed morocco binding by Ramage.A limited edition of 500 copies, of which this is numbered 304.Signed by the editor, R. B. Marston, to the limitation page.Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, nineteen plates, and in-text engravings. Collated, complete.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, thirty-two plates, and in-text engravings. Collated, lacking one plate, Plate XXXI.'The Compleat Angler' is a well known seventeenth century work celebrating the art and spirit of fishing, in both prose and verse.The work was admired by the likes of Charles Lamb, who admired it for it's innocence and simplicity of the heart. In fact it is so popular that it is the second most reprinted book in English after the King James Bible.Walton's writing is vivid and expands further than being just a fishing manual, with passages of rich description, such as describing the contents in the bag of an angler.Izaak Walton is now best known for this work, though he professed to not be an expert with a fishing fly. He also wrote a collection of short biographies called 'Walton's Lives'.With contributions by Charles Cotton, a poet, who is best known for these contributions, and for his translations of the works of Michel de Montaigne.Edited and arranged by R. B. Marston.Including 'The Chronicle of the Compleat Angler' by T. Westwood and T. Satchell.Bookplate of Scottish bibliophile Alexander Stone to the front paste down. In a half crushed morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards, bound by Ramage. Externally, smart. Spines are lightly faded. Very light rubbing to the boards. Bookplate to the front paste downs. Spotting to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Various (illustrator). signed by author. book.…