Harcourt williamson mrs (11 Ergebnisse)

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

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

Zustand: New. In English.

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

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

Zustand: New.

Zustand: Wie neu. 13 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece, 400 pages with numerous photographic plates and text-illustrations / humorous woodcuts (the photographs show for example Victorian cyclists in Hyde Park / Photograph of a group of Cyclysts after a "Gymkana" / Professional Cycling Race past the Grand Stand by the Wall Brothers, St.Kilda / Military Cyclist tilting at the Ring, etc.). Hardcover [publisher's original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt lettering and design on front board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior is bright and clean. Occasional minor foxing. Very rare, early publication on cycling in the victorian society ! [The Isthmian Library - No.2] Includes, for example, the following chapters: The Cycle in Society by Mrs. F. Harcourt Williamson / The Humours of Cycling by Gilbert Floyd / Rides round London by C.P. Sisley / On Tandems,Multicycles, Machines of Peculiar Design, and Motor Cycles etc.…

White Cloth, Gilt. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition De Luxe. xii., 194 pages, 93 photogravures & illustrations, list of subscribers to rear. White cloth binding, with bevelled edges, gilt decoration & titling to upper & lower boards and spine, No. 168 of the First Edition De Luxe of 300 copies, signed by Publisher to limitation page. Literary contributors include Rudyard Kipling, Hall Caine, Theodore Watts-Dunton, George Moore, Israel Zangwill, Wilfrid Blunt. Artists reproduced include John Everett Millais, Lord Leighton, Edward Hughes, W B Richmond, Jame McNeil Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Hubert von Herkomer, Ellis Roberts, G F Watts. Some wear, soiling to spine, covers, offsetting to prelims., some spotting to contents. Uncommon in any condition. [15942/821] Size: 425mm. x 340mm. Signed by Publisher. …

1st edition. Edited by B. Fletcher Robinson. The Isthmian Library No.2. Contents: I. Of Cycles and Cyclists; II.The Cycle in Society, by Mrs F.Harcourt Williamson; III.On the Choice of a Machine; IV.On the Choice of a Machine (continued); V.How to Keep a Machine in Good Order; VI.The Humours of Cycling by Gilbert Floyd; VII.On Pneumatic Tyres and the Methods of Repairing Them; VIII.How to Ride; IX.On Touring and the Tourist's Outfit; X.Rides Round London by C.P.Sisley; XI.on Racing and Training; XII.On Clubs, Cycling Institutions, and Literature Devoted to the Sport; XIII.On Tandems, Multicycles, Machines of Peculiar Design, and Motor Cycles; XIV.How to Build a Bicycle. Pp.400/9(publisher's catalogue), black & white frontispiece +15 further black & white plates, occasional silhouette style vignette illustrations, gift message to inner front endpaper "To William Windsor with Lady Morgan's best wishes for a very happy New Year, Xmas 1899", owner's initials to front free endpaper, slight cracking to inner front hinge but holding firm, staining to closed top edge of pages (not affecting pages internally. Dark green pebbled cloth, gilt title and Isthmian Library motif (two naked wrestlers) to front board, gilt title to spine, minor wear to top and tail of spine and small bumps to corner tips. A lovely copy of a scarce book. G+.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large 4to. pp xi, 214. Edition de-luxe, numbered 34 of 50 copies and signed by publisher and containg 12 duplicate hand-coloured plates. Circa 80 full page portraits of society female beauties of the era inc Alice Keppel, Baroness de Meyer, Princess Demidoff, Princess of rRoumania, THe Wyndhams, Mrs Cazalet. Artists include the Marchioness of Granby, Hunert Herkomer, John Sargent, Paul Helleu, J E Millais, Ellis Roberts, Maud Coleridge. Each portrait accompanied by a short literary piece -- writers inc Kipling, Lady Vane, Queen of Roumania, Lady Troubrridge, Ouida, Israel Zangwill etc., Original publisher's beige buckram lettered gilt on spine and elaborately decorated gilt on front cover . Sound clean vg, some plates loose, possibly intentionally, occasionally staining to the edges of some plates. Leather label on pastedown with gilt decoation - 'Ruth from Willoughby, Christmas 1903.'. …

Zustand: Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1896. First Edition, Limited Issue of 300 copies signed by the publisher, this being #76. Folio. 194pp. with list of subscribers at rear, leading with the Queen. Illustrations and photogravures with tissue guards, complete. Original white cloth decorated in gilt. Soiling and spotting to boards; wear with exposure and fraying to spine ends; exposure and fraying to corners; rubbing to spine. Boards give a little but binding holding soundly and pages unmarked; still a Very Good copy. Includes Kipling's poem "The Quest.".…