edith emma cooper (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. lxxv pages. Our copy is internally fine, in a worn binding. The Paper-covered boards, designed by Charles Ricketts, are worn and chipped, their corners bumped; a small bookplate at the front pastedown, remnants of a sheet glued to the front free endpaper, else contents fresh and pleasing. 310 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. cxvi pages : illustrations. This is a pleasing copy of a reasonably scarce book. The uarter cloth over paper covered boards are sturdy and clean, the corners lightly bumped, the paper spine label mildly dampstained and rubbed but its edges are sharp and its lettering legible; the contents are unmarked and quite attractive. 410 grams.

Zustand: Very Good-. Location:436 Decorations designed and cut into wood by Charles Ricketts. Slight tear to crown, and price sticker removed, slightly marring back board. Sunning to both end papers. Fep has "Vale Press" in ink calligraphy, traces of a removed bookplate, and a tiny publisher's bibliographic description pasted in. The next page has a small sheet with handwritten identification of the authors, with a list of their works, initialed P.T.D. 436.

First separate edition: the play was originally published in 1884 with another play, Callirrhoë. Octavo. pp lxxx. Printed in black and red. Wood-engraved rose border (used twice) and two large ornamental initials all by Charles Ricketts. The only book in which this border design was used. Boards with two different patterned papers; spine label. A play. 210 copies were printed, of which 23 were destroyed in a fire in 1899.Endpapers tanned. Covers rubbed at spine and edges. Spine label darkened. Very good.

First edition. Octavo. pp lxxxv. Prelims printed in black and red. The first page of text has a decorative border by Charles Ricketts. Quarter green paper boards with a decorative leaf design by Ricketts. A play set in ancient Rome.Mottling to spine (possibly from binder's glue?). Spine label rubbed, affecting several letters of the title. Free endpapers lightly tanned. Very good.

First Edition. End-papers just a little darkened and covers very slightly bowed, otherwise a exceptionally nice copy in the original plain tissue wrapper, that is darkened and just a little creased and frayed. Loosely inserted are a number of advertising leaflets, including one for Elkin Mathews and John Lane for other books by Field and another for the "Bohn's Libraries" series Original cream parchment, stamped in red.