Fowles joseph (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Windsor, CT: The Loomis Institute, 1976. Softcover in very good condition with some very minor cover soil, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. pp.(viii)+104 +39 full page illustrations. 24cm. Key. Annotations. Index. Soft covers. Good clean copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy with autograph note on front cover, "For John Fowles, Somehow from Reading and rereading and admiring The French Lieutenant's Woman, I thought these notes might interest you, Joseph Wiesenfarth 6 December 1977" 39pp + cover.

104pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations. A very good copy.

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG+. First Thus. VG/VG+. 4to. original charcoal boards gilt (slightly rubbed & bumped, occ. marks, a few corners creased) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & nicked, occ. spotting & marking); pp. [viii], 104, with illustrations. A very good copy. A publisher's prospectus for the book is loosely enclosed. First published as separate parts in 1848.…

Purple Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket as Published. [1878], 88pp, 40 lithographed plates, some spotting, original purple cloth with gilt titling to upper board, a little rubbed, corners slightly bumped, rebacked with spine laid down, printed by D Wall, 76 York Street, Sydney and published by J Fowles, 5 Harrington Street, Sydney, [1878] Originally printed in parts, this latter edition has lithopraphed plates. Size: Quarto. Joseph Fowles (illustrator). Archictectural History.…

Quarto, with full page copper plate engravings throughout; original pink papered boards, preserved in a blue folding quarter morocco bookform box. First edition, first issue of Australia's first work devoted to architecture, showing the Georgian heritage of Sydney at a time when it was a city of just 50,000 inhabitants: "invaluable for the early topography of Sydney" (Ferguson). Joseph Fowles arrived in Sydney in 1838 and this is without doubt his most important work, providing remarkably detailed information on the buildings of the city at mid-century. As Morton Herman puts it, "the Sydney he records was a lovely colonial town of clean, chaste Georgian architecture. Whole streets were pleasant compositions of harmonious buildings, few of them over three storeys high, all clearly designed, well mannered and an orderly delight to the eye." (Foreword to the facsimile edition of 1963). Published by subscription, this work consists of forty "Copperplate Engravings of the Principal Streets, Public Buildings, Churches, Chapels, Etc". Fowles stated that its express purpose was "to remove the erroneous and discreditable notions connected with the Colony". It is one of the rarer Australian illustrated books, whilst its importance to architectural history is without rival. No further such detailed study appeared for at least fifty years. This work was re issued in 1878 with the text reset, and has been reprinted many times over. This first edition is greatly enhanced by its forty fine copper-engravings produced in Sydney. It was first issued in parts (an almost impossible rarity today): this is its first appearance in bookform, here in the first issue (with a sheet of reviews and advertisements, omitted from later issues, following the title-page). These illustrations were engraved by W. Harris from original drawing done by Fowles and were well received by the press as "superior to any previous attempts at representing Sydney as it really is. " (Bell's Life in Sydney). Throughout his life Fowles taught as well as practised art. He was in charge of the training and examination of art teachers for the National Board of Education from 1854 until 1867 when the board was succeeded by the Council of Education. It was largely through his efforts that drawing was being taught in every government school in New South Wales by the surprisingly early date of 1869. He was also drawing master at a number of private schools, including The King's School, Sydney Grammar, Sydney High and Camden College, as well as at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts (lessons £1 a quarter). . Provenance: Alfred C. Johnson (ownership inscription). Boards very stained and spotted.…