Detmold edward j illus (5 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Illus. By Edward J. Detmold (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. 265 p. interspersed with plates. 26 cm. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 12 other tipped-in colour plates by Detmold. Green cloth with gold print. Some dents to bottom edges, soiling to cloth. Hinges professionally repaired. Clean, neat pages. "It is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practical bee-keeping" begins Maeterlinck and it might be said that this volume pertains more to life than it does to bees. The Life of the Bee is for readers curious about a brilliant thinker's meditations on nature. Not surprisingly, Maeterlinck won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1911. A beautiful volume, illustrated by the gifted Edward J. Detmold.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardback. 4to. 26 by 32 cms. Limited Edition. This edition limited to 750 copies, numbered and signed by the artist of which this is No. 146. Unpaginated. 25 fine tipped-in colour illustrations by Detmold, all with captioned paper guards and all in very good indeed condition. Including two extra plates not found in the trade edition. Original publisher's cream buckram binding with gilt lettering, and decoration to spine and front cover. Original end papers with tiny scarab beetle motif to the centre. Enpapers very slightly tanned, covers bright and clean slight brown stain to top corner of rear end paper, plates and text very clean; very good indeed or better. Signedes.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No.248 of a limited edition of 750 copies, with limitation signed by Edward Detmold. Large book (26 x 32cm approx.), in cream cloth with gilt; 25 tipped-in colour plates by Detmold (all present). Gift inscription on blank page; free end papers very faintly browned; slight discolouration to cloth on back board. Cloth at foot of spine slightly crushed. Overall a very nice copy of an impressive book. This is a heavy item (about 2.3kg packed); additional postage may be required Used - Very Good. SIGNED copy VG hardback in cream cloth. Signed by Illustrator(s). …

First edition, sole impression. A report on the publication in the New York Times for 5 December 1903 stated that "the edition is strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America". This portfolio is a magnificent presentation of the Detmold brothers' celebrated book illustrations. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original artwork, the Manchester Guardian commented that the Detmolds "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer enthused that "the drawing of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs who 'were not thinking of Mowgli's friends at all' is full of character, subtle observation, and invention. The figure of Bagheera in 'Mowgli and the Red Flower' has something of that beauty which hath terror in it. Baloo and Nag, Kaa and Akela the lone wolf are brought before our eyes in a singularly convincing and engaging form". Manchester Guardian, 5 November 1903. Folio. 16 coloured chromolithograph prints on thin card (sheet sizes: 330 x 430 mm.) tipped onto white board with grey window mounts (mount sizes: 393 x 545 mm.) with cover sheet to each illustration providing the title and a short extract from the book. Original green cloth chemise, front cover lettered and with illustration in gilt, containing title page, contents leaf and 16 loose prints. Housed in a custom grey cloth folding box. Chemise worn with loss, front cover detached, bookplate removed, lacking ties, occasional chips and tears to extremities of cover sheets, light browning to sheets, fold to title page and contents leaf strengthened, prints bright and unfaded; a good set.…