Charles robert swift (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents, pen name/date fep, 96pp with tipped-in colour frontis and B&W drawings.

Zustand: New. In English.

8°, Hardcover/Pappeinband. Zustand: Gut. 96 S., Einband altersbedingt leicht nachgedunkelt und etwas berieben, Gelenke am Rücken etwas angebrochen, Bindung ist fest, innen sauber und gut erhalten Due to new EU packaging regulations, we are currently unable to ship to many EU countries. Shipping to Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, and the Baltic states is possible. Deliveries to border-based parcel lockers or cross-border parcel forwarding services remain possible. Shipping to all countries outside the EU also remains possible. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 310.…

Zustand: Used - Good. Good hardback. 1st edition. In paper-covered boards, with black lettering & pictorial on-lay on front board. Illustrated with drawings; colour frontis. Brief gift inscription on front free end paper; text clean in firm binding; spine browned & worn, & seems to have been repaired at some time.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Olive green cloth binding with black lettering and red anchor centre front, spine unlettered, no obvious faults. xv+47, 30 text ills.; only flaw is tanning to outer sides of end-papers off-set from jacket, so probably common to all copies. Unclipped jacket minimally worn with just a few tiny flecks and hints of edge-tanning, Black lettering to front with red image of country in centre, no spine lettering, will add protective sleeve when ordered. A large proportion of the Inns covered are in St.Albans, on the buildings of which the author had published several other monographs. Undated but internal evidence suggests mi- to late 30s. Apparently very scarce. 19cm x 25 cm.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A very smart four-volume set exploring the signs and origins of various English inns. This set comprises four volumes on English inns, in particular looking at the origins and designs of various signs found across London, Kent and the rest of the country.In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Includes the following works: Old London Coaching Inns and Their Successors by Arthur Groom (1928) - With a tipped in slip 'With Compliments from The London Midland & Scottish Railway Company', dated 1937. With a colour frontispiece, one further colour plates and four double-sided monochrome plates. Inns and Inn Signs: Sacred and Secular by Charles Robert Swift (1947) - With many in-text illustrations. English Inn Signs: Being a Revised and Modernized Version of History of Signboards by Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten (1951) - With eight double-sided monochrome plates through the text and a sixty-four page catalogue of further monochrome illustrations. Kent Inns, A Distillation (1955) - Profusely illustrated with annotated monochrome photographs throughout the text.Collated, complete. In the original cloth bindings. Externally, very smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities, most notable to 'Old London Coaching Inns'. With marks to the boards of 'Kent Inns' and a tipped in 'With Compliments' slip to the front pastedown of 'Old London Coaching Inns'. Bookplate of one Richard Falkiner to the front pastedown of 'Inns and Inn Signs'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers to all and occasional scattered spots to 'Old London Coaching Inns'. Contemporary ownership inscription to the pastedowns and title page of 'English Inn Signs'. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…