Combe william author (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good with no dust jacket. Colored engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; viii, 244 pages; Paper label toned, some staining to covers. End matter foxed. "William Combe" penciled on title page. Illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson (illustrator).

Hardcover. Ninth Edition. Octavo, 272 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in full green calf leather with gilt lettering and tooling to spine. Marbled pastedown and endpapers in a large-scale stone pattern, in black, cream, and red. Boards show scratches, stains and edge wear. Spine with light wear to head and tail. Text block has age toning along the edges and light foxing throughout the the pages. Complete with 30 hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece. Shelved in Room X Glass Case 1. 1417783. Special Collections - Downstairs.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 277 pages. In Very Good condition. Half-bound in red leather over red cloth. Raised bands at spine with gold lettering. Hand-marbled pastedown and endpapers in burgundy-red. Boards show mild surface and corner wear. Spine with light rubbing and wear to head and tail. Text-block has age toning to edges, foxing throughout pages. Complete with 24 hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece. Shelved in Room X Glass Case 1. 1417780. Special Collections - Downstairs.…

Hardcover. Second Edition. Octavo, 276 pages. In Very Good condition. Half-bound in red leather over red cloth. Raised bands at spine with gold lettering. Hand-marbled pastedown and endpapers in burgundy-red. Boards show mild surface and corner wear. Spine with light rubbing and wear to head and tail. Text-block has age toning to edges, foxing throughout pages. Complete with 20 hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece. Shelved in Room X Glass Case 1. 1417779. Special Collections - Downstairs.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 285, [2] pages. In Very Good condition. Half-bound in brown leather over marbled paper board. Raised spine with gilt lettering. Marbled pastedown and endpapers in burgundy red. Boards show light surface and edge wear. Spine with scuffing along the sides and head & tail. Front broad split from text block but still intact. Text block has age toning along the edges and random foxing throughout the pages. Complete with 25 hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece. Shelved in Room X Glass Case 1. 1417781. Special Collections - Downstairs. …

Zustand: Good. [iv], 279 pp. Hand-colored pictorial title page, frontispiece, and 23 hand-colored plates, hand-colored vignette on final page. (8vo) 23.5x15 cm (9¼ x 6") later green half calf and marbled boards, red leather spine label, edge speckled red. First Edition.Combe's doggerel verses were written to accompany Rowlandson's plates depicting the adventures of a roving school-master, this is the final of his three tours. Abbey. Life in England 267; Tooley 429; Gordon Ray, 34.…

Zustand: Good. (16mo) 5-3/8 x 3-3/8"; 86 x 135 mm. period full morrocco with gold stamping and the initila "LCB." All edges gilt. Spines rubbed. 3 volumes. Illustrated with 80 hand-colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson, including two pictorial title pages. "Miniature Edition".Charming reduced version of the inimitable works published in octavo in 1812, 1820 and 1821; Tooley notes that "Fresh plates were re-engraved for this edition, one-third the size of the originals." Abbey. Life in England 269; Tooley 430.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, Two Volumes. In Very Good condition. Quarter-bound in green leather over marbled paper boards. Raised spine with gilt lettering. Marbled pastedown and endpapers in burgundy red. J. M. Shields, printed ownership label to front pastedown. Pencil annotations to front endpapers of Vol.I. Pencil annotations scattered through pages of Vol. II. Boards show surface wear including scratches and rubbing along edges. Spine with scruffing to sides and bumping to head and tail. Age toning and random foxing throughout pages. Vol. I. "The English Dance of Death" (195 [1], pages). Contains 37 plates, including frontispiece. Vol. II. "The English Dance of Death" (295 [1], pages). Contains 37 plates, including frontispiece. Shelved in Room X Glass Case 1. 1417784. Special Collections - Downstairs.…

Zustand: Good. Large quarto. 28.3 x 34.8cm. Contemporary gilt panelled calf; Original spine rebacked on new goatskin support. 47 hand-coloured aquatint plates, lacking one plate (Eton Scholar). Whatman 1812 or 1813 watermarks, and plates in the earlier states, by Havell, Stadler, Bluck, and others, after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin, and others, 'Charter House, from the Play Ground' with overlaid title label, intermittent offsetting and spotting. armorial bookplate of F. Manley Sims and "Manley Sims Eton Collection" ink stamp to title page,:Francis Manley Sims (F.R.C.S.) was a 19th-century physician and surgeon based in London's West End. A dedicated book collector, he is best known to historians for assembling the notable "Manley Sims Collection" of rare books and Etoniana, which he donated to his alma mater, Eton College.Born on June 19th, 1841, at Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, the son of the Rev Frederick Sims, Rector of West Bergholt, Essex, and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He spent his early life in Suffolk, and was educated at Colchester Grammar School. Shortly before he was 16 he was apprenticed to the then well-known practitioner, Thomas Young, of Sackville Street, W, and soon entered as a student at St George's Hospital. Rising very early - at five o'clock every morning - he studied medicine and modern languages before beginning the work of the day with his principal, and was thus able to carry off all the prizes at his hospital, where he was appointed House Surgeon, and afterwards Demonstrator of Physiology. He started practice in Down Street, Mayfair, and in 1870 joined partnership with William Fuller, of 111 Piccadilly, whose niece he married in 1875. In 1884, on the virtual retirement of William Fuller, he was joined in partnership by H Roxburgh Fuller, of Curzon Street, who remained with him to the end.Manley Sims became a most fashionable physician, with probably the largest West-End practice, and his life was one of tireless labour. As of old he rose very early, and was often on his rounds in his brougham before breakfast. He was seldom in bed after 5.30 am, whatever the duties of the previous night had been, and during the whole of this enormously long working day his powers of close attention, accurate insight, and sympathy remained unabated. It is to his credit that he was very helpful and generous to poor patients, and possessing, as he did, the ear of a wealthy and influential clientele, he could often contrive a scheme of assistance in cases of sickness and misery that was practical besides being well meant. To do so was the greatest possible source of pleasure to him. He was a firm and generous friend, an interesting companion, full of reminiscences and experiences, and well read.Abbey, Scenery, no. 440. …

Zustand: Good. (16mo) 5-3/8 x 3-3/8"; 86 x 135 mm. period full calf with gold stamping. 3 volumes. Illustrated with 80 hand-colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson, including two pictorial title pages. "Miniature Edition".Charming reduced version of the inimitable works published in octavo in 1812, 1820 and 1821; Tooley notes that "Fresh plates were re-engraved for this edition, one-third the size of the originals." Abbey. Life in England 269; Tooley 430.…