edwin alabone (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with moderate foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Good. Thirty-fifth edition / 149th Thousand (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 305pp, vi. Frontispiece and several plates (one of which is folding). Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Light rubbing of the boardsshort ownership inscription, else this book is in very good condition.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

John Kemp & Co, London. 1916. Fiftieth Edition (abridged). Hardback, no DW. Brown boards, faded gilt type to spine and upper board. Upper board is creased, and a little bumped at corners. Pages browned, with considerable foxing to rear endpapers, and also some to individual pages through text. Some extra papers loosely inserted including an obituary, reprinted from 'The Truth', which tells the story of this controversial medical figure.

PRESENTATION COPY, 8vo, pp. [xvi] + 78 plates. Plates printed in several colours. Original green textured cloth, spine and front board blocked in gilt. A little spotting. Extremities rubbed, slightly shaken, hinges cracking. First leaf printed with a epicycloidal pattern inside which is inscribed ?To H. Beamont Esqr. with the author?s compliments, 1910? A scarce volume of complex curves produced with a Holtzapffel four-part chuck by the controversial surgeon Dr Edwin William Alabone (1849-1913). Following a popular book claiming to offer a cure for tuberculosis, Alabone was eventually struck from the medical register but continued practising, fighting legal challenges the whole way. His preferred method of relaxation from the stresses involved was evidently ornamental turning; this was the first of his publications showing off his creations. It omits any technical information about his process or machinery, but is elaborately printed in multiple colours, often on the same plate. It was probably printed at Alabone?s own expense and most copies privately distributed by him, there being a pattern on the first leaf just right for putting a presentation inscription in.