H stuart menzies (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. First edition. 92, [8]pp, with line drawings. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt motif on upper panel, gilt lettering on spine. 12mo. Cloth rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, sunned around spine, a few mild marks. Previous owner's name neatly inked on front free endpaper else neat, clean, bright and tight. A volume of comic verse, poking fun at Kings and Queens, past and present. Funny. Stuart Menzies, H; Hendy, W M (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No dust jacket .

1st edition. Square 8vo. 188pp. + adverts. Half tone illustrations by G. Hendy. Ownership inscription to front f.e.p. Original pictorial orange boards lettered in black, slightly soiled, rubbed to edges. US$15.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. The first English translation of this essay on cooking with accompanying recipes and illustrations throughout. First edition translated into English. Illustrated throughout. A detailed and comprehensive essay on cooking considered both as a fine art and a worldly pleasure, exploring the art of cooking, the table, hosting, eating, drinking, and more. With accompanying recipes such as rabbits a la milanaise and asparagus en blanc, amongst many others. Translated by Naomi Walford, a British translator. Illustrated by Hugh Stuart Menzies and William M. Hendy, British illustrators with Hendy being best known for his work in Punch magazine. Both are artists for Fortnum and Mason's Commentaries. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with light sunning to the board edges and the odd small mark. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with minor age toning to the extremities. The odd pencil mark. Good. H. Stuart Menzies; W. M. Hendy (illustrator). book.…

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Zustand: Good+. Condition Notes: Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding which is dulled slightly. The contents complete, clean and tight but with the lower third of the last blank excised; Hardback. Quarter-Bound Yellow on Decorative Yellow boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9" x 5¾" (0.7 kg); pp 0; Includes: Colour drawings; Title page vignette; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199940 ||. W. M. Hendy (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Original quarter yellow cloth over yellow decorated boards. Slight lean, spine lightly dulled, very light bump to top corner otherwise very good. No dust jacket. Bookplates to endpaper and pastedown. Beautifully illustrated throughout.

illustrations throughout by W.M. Hendy, those to first volume with colour-printing in green and pink, the second volume with printing in blue and orange, each with a folding plate (that to first volume slightly wonky), pp. 12; 12, crown 8vo, contemporary binding for presentation in russet calf, decorative gilt border to both boards, the upper board with gilt-lettering ('Commentaries 1928, to Colonel C. Wyld from H. Stuart Menzies'), the backstrip and upper board a shade faded, a little wear and rubbing to extremities, the upper board with a few faint waterspots, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, good. Inscribed also on the initial blank: 'The Commentaries of 1928, With best wishes for Xmas & the New Year, to Col. C. Wyld from H. Stuart Menzies, 1928'. A superb association copy. The recipient was the Managing Director at Fortnum, who had overseen a revival at the luxury department store, including conceiving and commissioning these mail-order catalogues from the Stuart Advertising Agency founded by Menzies. 'Issued after wine' (a small amount of which, the paler variety, may have been spilt on the binding here) from the firm's 'enhanced premises' in Piccadilly (which had recently been re-built to a Neo-Georgian design), they are full of comic verve - with no opportunity missed, between Menzies' copywriting and Hendy's decorations, for sport and humour in the presentation of its various products for the respective seasons. …