flaxmans designs (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. On spine in gilt lettering: "Chandos Classics."452 p., plus "A Selected List of New and Recent Publications from Messrs. Frederick Warne & Col.s Catalogue;" clean and unmarked--some pages unopened. Former owner's signature on half t.p. is dated 1902 and signature of same person is on front end page is dated 1951 or 1901--difficult to be sure. Sewn signatures are secure but there is some cracking of paper at gutter between half t.p. and frontis. showing engraving of bust of Homer. Many maps and ill. by John Flaxman. Occasional neat underlining and marginalia in pencil. Blue boards have light bumping at corners and some rubbing at crown of spine panel, but gilt lettering on unsunned spine is still bright despite absence of d.j. The mark of a tea cup mars the front board.Paper fine, only mildly age-toned and unfoxed.

HardBack. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition, Ingram, Cook 1853. 2 Volumes Complete, bound in 1. Very Thick Royal 8vo. vi 348pp. iv 324pp. With Flaxmans Designs and Other Engravings; 44 illustrations to Volume I, 45 to Volume II, including double frontispiece to each book, with portrait of Homer and Pope respectively. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, 2 small discreet feint erasable pencil inscriptions to frontis and titlepage, 1 similar pen inscription to fly leaf, all edges bright red. Later rebind in full brickred morocco leather, bevelled edge with original brown calf boards laid down and featuring black and brown embossed floral scrolled vignette illustration and ruling to both, new endpapers with laid down original coloured marbled pastedowns, all inner and edges with blind dentelles, no text to spine. A lovely volume, of double interest for classicists, as here Homers Iliad is translated by Augustan poet Alexander Pope, author of The Rape of the Lock, and second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Book of Quotations, after Shakespeare. A good addition to the library of reader, scholar and collector alike.

Zustand: Poor. Undated. Spine faded, and base is torn. Top of spine also very worn. Boards has gentle scuffs to corners, Tanning/foxing throughout, predominantly to page edges. Contetns all legible.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Leather. 8vo. Published by G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, London, UK. 1913. Xliv, 459 pgs. Illustrated. Bound in full decorated prize binding leather with the coat of arms for Christ College Grammar School present to the front board with gilt titles and raised bands present to the spine. Leather lightly worn along the extremities. Previous owner prize bookplate present to the reverse of the front board. Previous owner's name present to the reverse of the FFEP. Foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilizationthe cornerstone of Western culture and an epic poem without rival in world literature. The story centers on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilleus's killing of Hektor and the fall of Troy. But Homer's theme is not simply war or heroism. With compassion and humanity, he presents a universal and tragic view of the world: human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.