green romney (8 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. One of 240 copies handset in Caslon O.F. and printed on Batchelor Kelmscott handmade paper. Illustrated with 22 wood-engravings of carpentry tools by Eric Gill (including title-page device) and 10 engravings by John Beedham. Quarter black cloth with grey marbled paper-covered boards, printed label superimposed on the upper cover. Very slight bruising to corners. Stanley Scott book label at the rear. A near fine copy. No second volume of this work appeared. In the description of fig.7 on p.14, the words `Sawing Block' have been crossed out, and `Shooting Board' printed underneath. Romney Green, mathemetician and furniture-maker, had his workshop at Christchurch. (Taylor & Sewell A31, Gill 269).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp xvi, 110. Original publisher's beige linen spine, over orange paper covered boards with white title label on cover reading 'Woodwork by A Romney Green'. Contains twenty-one wood engravings of tools by Eric Gill. With the Eric Gill bookplate of his younger brother Evan Gill, his bibliographer. Bookplate shows a form of swastika against a tower on a hill with flowers. An informative look at the art of carpentry by craftsman-woodworker Arthur Romney Green (1872-1945), who, like Gill and Pepler, was influenced by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. Although the book is stated as "Volume I", no further volumes were issued possibly due to the war which Green mentions in the preface. Title page with black-and-white wood engraving, a total of thirty-one wood engravings in the text throughout: twenty-one wood engravings of carpentry tools by Eric Gill, ten wood engravings by R. John Beedham; Handmade paper, 198 mms by 133 pagination: [i-iv] v-xvi [1] 2-110. Faint shelf wear, linen sppine very slightly discoloured, decent about very good indeed copy. No inscriptions, very clean text.

4pp., folio. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged paper slightly worn at head. The front page is headed 'H.R.H. Princess Christian and the Royal Members, are Patrons of a Private Farewell Matinee arrranged by Lady Romney on behalf of the Green Park Club for Mr. and Mrs. Luther Munday'. The names of twenty performers are listed beneath this, headed by Herbert Beerbohm Tree, with various other individuals named. The central two pages form a single arrangement of dozens of facsimile signatures, beneath the following message from the Countess of Romney, as President of the Green Room Club: 'Names are the beads of Memory's Rosay. I have had these autographs fac-similied from Mr. Munday's collection of letters because they connect the past with the present. These, Stars in the firmament of Art, have all, and many more, without money or price, taken some part in the Thousand Hours of Play and Song - social gatherings initiated and managed by Mr. & Mrs. Munday. To this Farewell Tribute from the Green Park Club, headd by its Royal members, I have added overleaf one other record, viz: that of the original Lyric Club. These (with 76 organized for charities) comprise 400 Entertainments given during the past 20 years.' The final page is headed 'Copy of a Record of the Old Lyric Club, 1887. | To the Secretary: Mr. Luther Munday'. Among those endorsing the account are Edward Spencer Churchill, Henry Irvving, Arthur Sullivan, George Grossmith and Charles Wyndham.