Francis fo ed (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. With owner's name inside cover. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0891300090.…

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN:080061206X.…

Hardcover. No.30 of 50 copies. Untrimmed; blue calf-backed cloth, sp gilt-lettered, t.e.g; rubbed & marked, ends of spine scuffed, corners knocked; half-title & verso of arms browned, some spotting; e-p inscr 'with Francis F Fox's compliments'.

Cloth. Zustand: Good +. 4 vols.: 90, [1]; 82; 80; 80 p., interspersed with plates. 29 cm. Each volume contains colour woodblock illustrations by Alexander Francis Lydon on art paper with accompanying protective pages bound into book. Cloth bound boards with gold and black impressing on the front, gold impressing on spine, blind impressing on back board. All edges gilt. Vol. I rebacked with original spine overlaid. Vol. I also contains a letter signed by C. P. Christie, Esq., pasted to front free endpaper. Some wear to spine ends and corners as well as small holes in hinges. Some foxing. Hinges cracking internally, repaired in vol. I only. This four-volume collectors set is the last of a number of collaborations by Irish Naturalist and clergyman Rev. Francis Orpen Morris (1810-1893), landscape artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917), and printer Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893). LYDON, Alexander Francis (illustrator). …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A beautifully illustrated series describing the history and design features of the county seats, adorned with colour plates to each volume. A wonderfully illustrated series exploring the county seats of noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. Complete in seven volumes.Bound in attractive uniform cloth, with decorative gilt.This set also includes the uncommon seventh volume, which was published to contain a facsimile list of subscriber's autographs, with a full list of subscribers to the index.Each volume is adorned with a frontispiece, illustrative title page and thirty-eight colour plates by Alexander Francis Lydon, coloured by Benjamin Fawcett.Descriptions of the county seats, including their history and context behind specific design features, are provided by the Rev. Francis O. Morris, an Anglo-Irish clergyman. He was most notable as an ornithologist and as the author of many children's books, as well as books on natural history and heritage buildings.Morris, Lydon and Fawcett continuously collaborated together, with Morris and Fawcett's relationship in particular having a profound effect on British ornithology. In the original uniform decorative cloth bindings. Externally, very smart with rubbing and bumping to the extremities, heaviest to the spines. Tide marks to the rear boards and spines of Vol I, V and VI. Light marks to the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound. Front free endpapers are disbound but present to Vol VII. Pages are generally bright and clean. Offsetting caused by the plates affecting the opposing leaves to Vol I. With scattered spots to the first and last few leaves and occasional spotting throughout each volume. Very Good. Alexander Francis Lydon; Benjamin Fawcett (illustrator). book.…