Corbould edward illus (3 Ergebnisse)

Cloth Boards. 8vo, pp. xlviii, 445, (ii adverts), b/w frontis, b/w plates, award plate, few minor foxing spots prelims., all edges gilt, original gilt decorated cloth bds., spine split at rear joint, head and tail spine frayed, rubbed, corners bumped otherwise very good condition Work of the sixteenth century Italian poet giving an account of the combat between Muslims and Christians during the siege of Jerusalem, First Crusade. Corbould [Illus.] (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. New edition. lxxvi, 610 p. 18 cm. Frontispiece portrait of Percy. 7 other engraved plates. Red leather with gold impressing. Signed college binding from J. B. Hawes, Cambridge. All edges gilt. Corners bumped. Some wear to hinges and spine ends. Ink inscriptions on front endpapers, one for "John Bruckmann, O.M.P.S., Sunsher House 1952-53," and one for "Frederick Allison Tukker, 1935." "Percy's Reliques," as it is sometimes called for short, is a collection of ballads and popular songs collected by Bishop Thomas Percy and originally published in 1765. Ballad collections had appeared before but Percy's Reliques seemed to capture the public imagination like no other. Not only would it inspire poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth to compose their own literary ballads in imitation, it also made the collecting and study of oral poetry a popular pastime.…

Fourth Corbould edition, presented here in an attractive morocco binding. Edward Corbould (1815-1905) was a watercolourist and prolific book and magazine illustrator who produced illustrated editions of Chaucer, Spenser, and Walter Scott. First published in 1595, Epithalamion was written by Spenser as an ode for his bride on their wedding day. Octavo (162 x 102 mm). Engraved frontispiece and 7 full-page plates with tissue guards, all wood engraving by Dalziel after Edward Corbould. Contemporary green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers with gilt rules and frame, floral gilt roll to board edges and turn-ins, edges gilt, blue silk bookmarker. Early gift inscriptions to front free endpaper and first blank. Spine a little darkened, gilt bright, foxing to outer leaves. A near-fine copy.…