cuthbert bede b a (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1893; blue cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; wear and discoloration around edges; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 292 pages.

Paperback. Zustand: New.

Zustand: Good. Later. Good. Text is warped from water damage, name and date on front free endpaper, cloth covers are soiled on rear, gold stamped on front and spine, rubs; on corners and edges, bumped on corners, a nice reading copy with illustrations, browned text edges.

Cloth. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. No date, but c.1860. Maroon colour cloth with titles in gilt on spine and and image of and owl and a duck in college uniform on the front cover. Condition: Poor to fair, covers and spine are quite shelfworn and rubbed, watermark to corners of front pastedown and fep, not affecting text in any way. Previous owners name in pencil on fep. Front hinge beginning to crack, but otherwise binding sound. Browning to half-title, otherwise text clean with very occasional light soiling. 200pp. plus publishers list. Charming period b/w images throughout text by the author.

Tapa blanda. Zustand: Nuevo.

Text on both sides of a piece of paper 6 x 11 cm. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with a couple of glue marks from previous mounting on reverse. The bottom part of the letter, cut away for the signature. Side with signature reads ' yet heard from the Bp. of Petebro on that point. I have to write hastily for our 3.45 post. | Believe me dear Lady Huntly yours very sincerely obliged | [signed] Edward Bradley'. Reverse reads ' of the Dining room and Study - & some of the bedrooms - and also paint the whole of the outside of the house. Paperers also come in for various rooms. My children and governess will (I think) be able to get rooms at a neighbourig Farm house [.]'.

First edition; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); 24 hand-coloured plates including frontispiece and illustrated title, internally clean; later calf-backed cloth boards, and endpapers, spine blind tooled with gilt morocco lettering piece, publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth and spine laid on paper and bound in rear, all edges gilt; 83, [2]pp. A highly amusing account of photography as a hobby in the middle of the nineteenth-century by a renowned comedic artist and writer of the day. Edward Bradley (1827-1889) used the pen name Cuthbert Bede for his works including frequent contributions to Punch and other illustrated magazines. The illustrations are by his own hand and depict photographic processes and terms as visual puns.