Ernest e briggs (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1908, 1st edition, publisher's original brown buckram with black illustration and lettering. Illustrated by the author, an accomplished Scottish painter, with 32 tipped in colour plates with captioned tissue guards. In eight chapters, in two parts Galloway and the Highlands, with drawn Initials, head and tailpieces. Boards have damage to upper front, bumping and general wear to edges, sunning to spine, and generally soiled. Page bloc edges are dulled, some splitting to lower front gutter, previous owner's names to FFEP and half title. Light foxing occasionally throughout.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG+. First Edition. 8vo. original brown decorated buckram (inscrip., cloth slightly rubbed, occ. spotting); pp. xii, 216, with 32 colour plates (tissue-guarded) + text figures. A very good copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A lovely personal account of experiences fishing in Scotland, written and illustrated by an artist known for his talent at painting moving water. The first edition of Angling and Art in Scotland, a charming personal account of life fishing and painting across beautiful landscapes, written and illustrated by Scottish artist Ernest E. Briggs. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Contains a colour frontispiece, and all thirty-one other colour plates by Briggs. Collated complete. A charming work in which Briggs shares his experiences of how angling allows the reader to better appreciate scenes of natural beauty. Briggs was known for his ability to capture moving water in painting, and examples of this are seen throughout, including at lochs Howie and Skae. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally, mostly smart, with a couple of marks to rear board. Minor rubbing to joints and edges. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Offsetting to free end papers and a couple of spots to pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound, with minor wear to hinge between p.64 and plate, and pp.48-49. Pages are mostly bright and clean with a couple of spots to first and final leaves. Very Good. Ernest E. Briggs (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated. some freckling to fore edge. Owner's name on free front endpaper. Brown burlap, illustrated.

8vo, tan cl bds, black lettering & rules to spine & front board, tooled fishing scene illus. to front board, fish decorations to spine, teg, frontis. with tissue guard, xxii + 216 pp., illus., elaborate chapter initials, plates, VG+ (light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, sl tanning & soiling to pg edges, light to moderate tanning & soiling/foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, sporadic light foxing throughout, pencil inscription to front pastedown). …